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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."

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Music

• Full title: Rose and the Briar
• Author: Sean Wilentz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780393328257
• ISBN: 0393328252
• ID: 01290608
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 154 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. March 2006

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