Damian A Carpenter

Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled American outlaw territory by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the outlaw figure's heroic associations and expands on its historical, folk, and social forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 241mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781472484420
• ISBN-10: 1472484428
• Artikelnr.: 47396954

Autorenporträt

Damian A. Carpenter is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Long Ways from Home: Introduction Part I: Outlaw Tradition 2. This Train
Is Bound for Glory: Making America, Making the Outlaw 3. Anthologizing
Outlaw Territory and Unsettling America: Revisiting Folk Tradition and the
Old, Weird America Part II: Outlaw Performance 4. The Outlaw as Performer:
Lead Belly, the Murderous Minstrel 5. Performing the Outlaw: Woody Guthrie,
the Dustiest of the Dust Bowlers 6. The Performer as Cultural Outlaw: Bob
Dylan, Alias