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Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations /

Marcus, Greil

Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations / Greil Marcus. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (176 p.) : 4 halftones - The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization ; 2013 .

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Inflection: “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” Bob Dylan -- Disappearance and Forgetting: “Last Kind Words Blues,” Geeshie Wiley -- World Upside Down: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground,” Bascom Lamar Lunsford -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CREDITS -- INDEX

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780674915312

10.4159/9780674915312 doi


Folk musicians--United States--United States.
Folk musicians--United States.
Folk songs, English--History and criticism--United States.
Folk songs, English--History and criticism.--United States
MUSIC / History & Criticism.

ML3551.9 / .M37 2015eb

782.421620092