Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067491533X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between the music and broader streams of American politics and culture. Drawn from Marcus’s 2013 Massey Lectures at Harvard, his new work delves into three episodes in the history of American commonplace song: Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s 1928 “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground,” Geeshie Wiley’s 1930 “Last Kind Words Blues,” and Bob Dylan’s 1964 “Ballad of Hollis Brown.” How each of these songs manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one illuminates different aspects of the commonplace song tradition. Some songs truly did come together over time without an identifiable author. Others draw melodies and motifs from obscure sources but, in the hands of a particular artist, take a final, indelible shape. And, as in the case of Dylan’s “Hollis Brown,” there are songs that were written by a single author but that communicate as anonymous productions, as if they were folk songs passed down over many generations. In three songs that seem to be written by no one, Marcus shows, we discover not only three different ways of talking about the United States but three different nations within its formal boundaries.
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations
Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674187083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one. In these seemingly anonymous productions, we discover three different ways of talking about the United States, and three separate nations within its borders.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674187083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one. In these seemingly anonymous productions, we discover three different ways of talking about the United States, and three separate nations within its borders.
The First Three Songs
Author: Steve Schneider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578909714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
5 decades of live concert photographs 1970's to 2019, over 175 concerts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578909714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
5 decades of live concert photographs 1970's to 2019, over 175 concerts.
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations
Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067491533X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between the music and broader streams of American politics and culture. Drawn from Marcus’s 2013 Massey Lectures at Harvard, his new work delves into three episodes in the history of American commonplace song: Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s 1928 “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground,” Geeshie Wiley’s 1930 “Last Kind Words Blues,” and Bob Dylan’s 1964 “Ballad of Hollis Brown.” How each of these songs manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one illuminates different aspects of the commonplace song tradition. Some songs truly did come together over time without an identifiable author. Others draw melodies and motifs from obscure sources but, in the hands of a particular artist, take a final, indelible shape. And, as in the case of Dylan’s “Hollis Brown,” there are songs that were written by a single author but that communicate as anonymous productions, as if they were folk songs passed down over many generations. In three songs that seem to be written by no one, Marcus shows, we discover not only three different ways of talking about the United States but three different nations within its formal boundaries.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067491533X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between the music and broader streams of American politics and culture. Drawn from Marcus’s 2013 Massey Lectures at Harvard, his new work delves into three episodes in the history of American commonplace song: Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s 1928 “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground,” Geeshie Wiley’s 1930 “Last Kind Words Blues,” and Bob Dylan’s 1964 “Ballad of Hollis Brown.” How each of these songs manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one illuminates different aspects of the commonplace song tradition. Some songs truly did come together over time without an identifiable author. Others draw melodies and motifs from obscure sources but, in the hands of a particular artist, take a final, indelible shape. And, as in the case of Dylan’s “Hollis Brown,” there are songs that were written by a single author but that communicate as anonymous productions, as if they were folk songs passed down over many generations. In three songs that seem to be written by no one, Marcus shows, we discover not only three different ways of talking about the United States but three different nations within its formal boundaries.
Three Songs with Piano Accompaniment: Butterflies
Author: Henry Hadley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Three songs. John Highlandman's remarks on Glasgow [&c.].
Author: Three songs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Songs of Three Countries and Other Poems
Author: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752401222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Songs of Three Countries and Other Poems by Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752401222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Songs of Three Countries and Other Poems by Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall
Scripture Songs, in three parts
Author: Ralph Erskine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: F-L
Author: Sir George Grove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: J. A. Fuller Maitland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Three Songs for Courage
Author: Maxine Trottier
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 0887767451
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In 1956, sixteen-year-old Gordon Westley finds his summer vacation shattered by tragedy, forcing him to come face-to-face with the darkest--and the sweetest--side of human nature.
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 0887767451
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In 1956, sixteen-year-old Gordon Westley finds his summer vacation shattered by tragedy, forcing him to come face-to-face with the darkest--and the sweetest--side of human nature.