Author: Wilentz, Sean
Title: The Rose & the Briar : Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
Description: New York, W.W. Norton, 2005. Hardcover. 406pp. 24 cm. Very good condition/good, Contents: Barbara Allen / D. Marsh -- The water is wide / A. Powers -- Pretty Polly / R. Sparks -- Music, when soft voices die / S. McCrumb -- Naomie Wise, 1807 / A. Domino -- John Brown’s body / S. Vowell -- When you go a courtin’ / R. Crumb -- Little maggiea mystery / J.C. Oates -- We did them wrong: the ballad of Frankie and Albert / C. Brown -- The sad song of Delia Green and Cooney Houston / S. Wilentz -- Destiny in my right hand: The wreck of old 97 and Dead man’s curve / D. Thomas -- I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say / L. Sante -- See Willy fly by and The cuckoo / J. Langford -- Mariachi reverie / P. Berman -- The foggy, foggy dew / J. Rockwell -- Come Sunday / S. Crouch -- El Paso / J. Miller -- Trial of Mary Maguire / E. Ward -- Love, lore, celebrity, and dead babies : Dolly Parton’s Down from Dover / E. Weisbard -- Sail away and Louisiana 1927 / S. Erickson -- Dancing with Dylan / W. Lesser -- Nebraska / H. Hampton -- Blackwatertown / P. Muldoon -- Envoi / G. Marcus.

Keywords: Ballads, English - United States


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