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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
Series |
Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture |
Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Long ways from home: Introduction -- What is an outlaw? -- The folk-outlaw-American -- Outlaw territory -- Performing the outlaw -- Copyright acknowledgments -- Notes -- Part 1 Outlaw tradition -- Chapter 2 This train is bound for glory: Making America, making the outlaw -- Oh give me a home -- The minstrel rustler and the bushwhacker in hoodâ#x80;#x99;s clothing: Billy the Kid and Jesse James |
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The bad man and the steel-drivinâ#x80;#x99; man: Stagolee and John HenryThe tramp and other gentlemen of the road -- â#x80;#x9C;Poor Boy Long Ways From Homeâ#x80;#x9D; -- Copyright acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Anthologizing outlaw territory and unsettling America: Revisiting folk tradition andthe old, weird America -- Greetings from the old, weird America -- Remembrance of things American: The voice of the frontier -- Brand new bag and the old, free America -- Authentic pop-hiss revenants and the old, weird America -- Notes -- Part 2 Outlaw performance |
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Chapter 4 The outlaw as performer: Lead Belly, the murderous minstrelLeft me here to sing this song: Poor Howardâ#x80;#x99;s legacy -- Let me go home: Making the myth -- Youâ#x80;#x99;re a mean boy: The murderous minstrel, 1934â#x80;#x93;1935 -- Sinful songs and the socially conscious bad man -- Lead Belly is a hard name -- Copyright acknowledgments -- Note -- Chapter 5 Performing the outlaw: Woody Guthrie, the dustiest of the Dust Bowlers -- The great singing historical bum in the Garden of Eden -- The good man outside the law -- Social outlaws on the freedom highway |
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This machine kills fascistsCopyright acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The performer as cultural outlaw: Bob Dylan, alias -- Portrait of a musical expeditionary: Developing the Dylan myth -- I just might tell you the truth: Outlaw blues out on Highway 61 -- Never known to hurt an honest man: The honest outlaw from archetype to cultural type -- Poâ#x80;#x99; boy, where you been? The outlaw spending time out of mind in the tempest of modern times -- Copyright acknowledgments -- Note -- Works cited |
Summary |
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 century, the outlaw voice has been most prominent in folk performance, the result being a cultural persona invested in an outlaw tradition that conflates the historic, folkloric, and social in a cultural act. 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 (Jesse James, Billy the Kid), folk (John Henry, Stagolee), and social (tramps, hoboes) forms. He argues that all three performers represent a culturally disruptive force, whether it be the bad outlaw that Lead Belly represented to an urban bourgeoisie audience, the good outlaw that Guthrie shaped to reflect the social concerns of marginalized people, or the honest outlaw that Dylan offered audiences who responded to him as a promoter of clear-sighted self-evaluation. As Carpenter shows, the outlaw and the law as located in society are interdependent in terms of definition. His study provides an in-depth look at the outlaw figure's self-reflexive commentary and critique of both performer and society that reflects the times in which they played their outlaw roles |
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Leadbelly, 1885-1949.
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Dylan, Bob, 1941-
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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.
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SUBJECT |
Dylan, Bob, 1941- fast |
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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967 fast |
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Leadbelly, 1885-1949 fast |
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Folk songs -- United States -- History and criticism
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Outlawas in music
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Folk songs
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781315591759 |
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1315591758 |
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