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For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt - Hardcover

Anne Norton Holbrook (editor) & Dan Beller-McKenna (editor)

 
9781574418590: For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1574418599 ISBN 13: 9781574418590
Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 2022

Synopsis

After he died, Townes Van Zandt found the success that he sabotaged throughout his short life despite the release of sixteen brilliant albums. Since his death, numerous albums both by and in honor of him have been released and many critical articles published, in addition to several books (including Robert Hardy’s A Deeper Blue by UNT Press).

For the Sake of the Song collects ten essays on Townes Van Zandt from a variety of approaches. Contributors examine his legacy; his use of the minor key; his reception in the Austin music scene; and an exploration of his relationship with Richard Dobson, with whom he toured as part of the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys. An introduction by editors Ann Norton Holbrook and Dan Beller- McKenna provides an overview of Van Zandt’s literary excellence and philosophical wisdom, rare among even the best songwriters.

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About the Author

ANN NORTON HOLBROOK is an English professor at Saint Anselm College and the author of Paradoxical Feminism: The Novels of Rebecca West. DAN BELLER-McKENNA is a music history professor at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Brahms and the German Spirit.

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Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1574418599
ISBN 13 
9781574418590
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256