The Rose and the Briar – Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad - Hardcover

Wilentz, Sean; Marcus, Greil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393059545 ISBN 13: 9780393059540

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005

Synopsis

The underlying impetus here is that though we have learned much about ballads from folklorists, it is time to hear from novelists and story writers, artists and poets, songwriters and performers. Dave Marsh weighs in on Barbara Allen, R. Crumb on When You go A Courtin', Joyce Carol Oates on Little Maggie, and James Miller on El Paso. There are 23 e

About this title

About the Author:

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. Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History and director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Synopsis:

A collection of writings and illustrations on the American ballad which treats it as an art form as well as an expressive reflection of history, in an anthology that features pieces by such contributors as Paul Muldoon, John Rockwell, and Joyce Carol Oates.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393059545
• ISBN 13: 9780393059540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320