The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad

Sean Wilentz (Curatore)

Greil Marcus (Curatore)

WW Norton & Co, 2005

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."

• Curatore: Sean Wilentz, Greil Marcus
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 2005
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 208 x 155 mm
• Peso: 500 gr.
• EAN: 9780393328257

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