The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad

By (author): "Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Crumb, Sarah Vowell, Anna Domino, Sharyn McCrumb, Rennie Sparks, Ann Powers, Paul Muldoon, Howard Hampton, Wendy Lesser, Steve Erickson, Dave Marsh, Eric Weisbard, Ed Ward, James Miller, Stanley Crouch, John Rockwell, Paul Berman, Jon Langford, L"

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Publish Date: 2004

The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad

ISBN0393059545

ISBN139780393059540

AsinThe Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad

Original titleThe Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad

The underlying impetus here is that though we have learned much about ballads from folklorists, it is time to hear from novelists and story writers, artists and poets, songwriters and performers. Dave Marsh weighs in on Barbara Allen, R. Crumb on When You go A Courtin', Joyce Carol Oates on Little Maggie, and James Miller on El Paso. There are 23 e