| Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad Contributor(s): Marcus, Greil (Editor), Wilentz, Sean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393328252 ISBN-13: 9780393328257 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2005 Annotation: Wilentz and Marcus have assembled an astonishing group of writers and artists--more than a dozen novelists, essayists, performers, and critics--to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad in words and in drawings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Instruction & Study - Voice - Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional |
| Dewey: 782.43 |
| LCCN: 2004014811 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 8.2" (1.10 lbs) 418 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Praised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as a classic & a ticket to ride, The Rose & the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Sharyn McCrumb, Luc Sante, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Marsh, and more than a dozen other novelists, essayists, performers, and critics; to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad. From Barbara Allen through The Wreck of the Old 97 to contemporary ballads by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, The Rose & the Briar is, as Geoffrey O'Brien hailed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, a book full of internal echoes and provocative coincidences, featuring historical investigation, shamanistic trance-journey, memoir, novella and cartoon, where names and costumes change, soldiers become cowboys, demon lovers become backwoods murderer; the voices are unmistakably distinct but they share a common ground. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilentz, Sean: - Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning The Rise of American Democracy, Bob Dylan in America, and many other works. He is completing his next book, No Property in Man, on slavery, antislavery, and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2015.Marcus, Greil: - Greil Marcus is the author of Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, Lipstick Traces, and Mystery Train. An Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University in 2002, he lives in Berkeley, California. |