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

ISBN-13: 9780367882044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Damian A. Carpenter

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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