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the rose & the briar,death, love and liberty in the american ballad (in English)
Greil Marcus
(Illustrated by)
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Sean Wilentz
(Illustrated by)
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W. W. Norton & Company
· Paperback
the rose & the briar,death, love and liberty in the american ballad (in English) - Marcus, Greil ; Wilentz, Sean
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Synopsis "the rose & the briar,death, love and liberty in the american ballad (in English)"
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."