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The cowboy and the dandy : crossing over from Romanticism to rock and roll / Perry Meisel.

Title
The cowboy and the dandy : crossing over from Romanticism to rock and roll / Perry Meisel.
Author
Meisel, Perry
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Alternative Title
Crossing over from Romanticism to rock and roll
Subject
  • Music and literature
  • Rock music > United States > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Crossing over -- The country and the city: King Curtis and the structure of Black urbanity -- Wilde West -- Influence and originality in blues tradition -- The psychedelic sublime -- "I second that emotion" -- The cowboy, the dandy, and Willa Cather -- Miles apart? -- Virginia Woolf's crosswriting -- The body English -- A coda on canonicity and mythology.
ISBN
0195118170 (cloth : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^97023789^/MN
OCLC
  • 37180890
  • SCSB-11228104
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library