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."
Sobre o autor(a)
Marcus, Greil
Greil Marcus é um autor e jornalista musical que trabalhou para Creem, Rolling Stone e Village Voice. Ele mora em Berkeley, Califórnia. |
| ISBN | 9780393328257 |
| Autor(a) | Marcus, Greil |
| Editora | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Ano de edição | 2005 |
| Páginas | 418 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |