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

by Sean Wilentz

Greil Marcus (Editor) and Sean Wilentz (Editor)

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The underlying impetus here is that though we have learned much about ballads from folklorists, it is time to hear from novelists and story writers, artists and poets, songwriters and performers. Dave Marsh weighs in on Barbara Allen, R. Crumb on When You go A Courtin', Joyce Carol Oates on Little Maggie, and James Miller on El Paso. There are 23 e
  • ISBN10 0393059545
  • ISBN13 9780393059540
  • Publish Date 17 November 2004
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 28 October 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English