Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations / / Greil Marcus.

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 th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
Series:The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization ; 2013
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.) :; 4 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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