A race of singers : Whitman's working-class hero from Guthrie to Springsteen
Title:
A race of singers : Whitman's working-class hero from Guthrie to Springsteen
Author:
Garman, Bryan K.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
©2000
Physical Description:
ix, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"Portions of this book appeared in different form in Popular music and society 20, no. 2 (1996) and American quarterly (March 2000)"--T.p. verso.
Language:
English
Contents:
For the workingman's sake: imagining a working-class hero -- Heroic spiritual grandfather: Whitman and the anticapitalist imagination, 1890-1940 -- Prophet singer: Guthrie and the legacy of Whitman -- Songs the people sing: Guthrie's cultural politics -- Woody's children: Seeger, Dylan, and the new left -- Bound for glory: the politics of cultural memory -- The sins of somebody else's past: Springsteen and the burden of tradition -- A good clear eye on the dirty ways of the world: Springsteen's democratic vistas.
ISBN:
9780807825587
9780807848661
Format :
Book
