1st Edition
Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance
By Damian A. Carpenter
Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American society by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Since the late nineteenth... Read more
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
Biography
Damian A. Carpenter is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA.
