... devotees to dive ever deeper into them in the hopes of forcing them to “show that which cannot be seen” (Jesi 2008 : 118). As a result, any time the crises of our day reach the point of suspending historical time, we recognize that we are supposed to dance but the song remains inaudible, since all...

... laborer songs functions as an interpretive medium through which events and subjectivities can be rendered intelligible and capable of galvanizing day laborer activism. AGAINST the DAY Nik Theodore The Ballad of Industry: Recuperating Alienated Identities through Day Laborers’ Song...

...Christopher Metress Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Christopher Metress Sing Me a Song about Ramblin Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music To get there you take I-65 straight south out of Nashville. The ride is good and gentle, and before you know it you...

...John L. Lievsay Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Milton and the Art of Sacred Song . Edited by Patrick J. Max Sundell Roger H. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1979 . Pp. xiii , 154 . $17.50 . 336 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Boswellian Hero...

...Arturo Dávila Duke University Press 2006 Arturo Dávila The Immigrant Song Weeping, weeping multitudes DroopinahundredA.B.C.’s —T. S. Eliot I We took the long...

...Robbie Lieberman The Culture of Politics: Communism, Americanism, and the People s Songs Hootenanny Robbie Lieberman In the summer of 1941 Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger attended a sing­ ing party in Seattle which the locals called a Hootenanny. In the fall of 1941 the Almanac Singers Woody...

...Charles K. Wolfe Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Charles K. Wolfe Event Songs In January 1925, the long and fruitful re­ lationship that was to develop between the commercial phonograph industry and coun­ try music was just beginning. In 1922, puzzled engineers of the Victor...

...Jerome L. Rodnitzky Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The New Revivalism: American Protest Songs, 1945-1968 Jerome L. Rodnitzky Music has long been an integral part of religious revivalism in America, and it is perhaps natural that protest songs have recently become one...

...Frances Acomb The Spirit of Revolution in 1789. A Study of Public Opinion as Revealed in Political Songs and Other Popular Literature at the Beginning of the French Revolution . By Rogers Cornwell B. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. 363 . $5.00. . Copyright ©...

...Henry E. Harman, Litt. D. Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Volume XV OCTOBER, 1916 Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly John Charles McNeill and His Work Henry E. Harman, Litt. D. Author of "A Bar of Song , Dreams of Yesterday , etc. The thought of old, dear things...

...Henry E. Harman Copyright © 1915 by Duke University Press 1915 Volume XIV OCTOBER, 191 £ Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Sidney Lanier A Study Henry E. Harman Author of A Bar of Song All day my soul hath been cutting swiftly into the great space of the subtle, unspeakable deep...

... to individuation and measure, and beyond the instrumentalities to which music itself is often submitted. We do so by thinking about how jazz—where it takes on the improvisatory character of the busker, rehearsal, or jam—becomes a form of love. We consider the song as an expression of antagonism that the song...

... and terrain of segregation. I then analyze how McPherson’s short story “A Solo Song: For Doc” (1968) and Rankine’s prose poem Citizen (2014) and video-essay “Situation 5” (ca. 2011) figure black countermoves challenging the post–civil rights imperative to embody black progress. Through somatic acts...

...Robert Bird In his essay Robert Bird traces a web of citations that link Zounds’ post-punk song “Subvert” to Raoul Vaneigem’s Revolution of Everyday Life and, even further, back to Vasilii Rozanov’s Apocalypse of Our Times , written in the wake of (and in opposition to) the Russian revolutions...

... movement, and the spreading blight of dishonesty, conformism, and hypocrisy in the United States, especially in Washington, and Bob Dylan is the only American writer dealing with these subjects in a way that makes any sense to us. And, at the same time, as modem poetry, we feel that his songs have a high...

...Teresa Goddu Teresa Goddu Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music Cecelia Tichi: But you re talking about country. I mean, I ve heard some of those traditional old songs you have called Appalachian dead-baby songs. So you re suggesting that country had to move well out...

...Robert F. Gleckner Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Robert F. Cleckner Blake s Dark Visions of Torment Unfolded: Innocence to Jerusalem ^Vthough they seem relatively infrequent, Mil­ tonic echoes in Songs of Innocence and of Experi­ ence have been noted in such poems...

... tilts his head far back, yells a sharp Owoo leans into the microphone, and begins Ferlin Husky s i960 hit, On the Wings of a Dove. Written in 1959 by Bob Ferguson, this was a song that Husky had difficulty recording for the secular market because of its overtly reli­ gious content. Yet, by 1994...

... conclusion. She makes the mistake, however, of trying to do too much and also, I believe, of allowing herself to become unduly concerned about a genre. Clifford A. Bender. University of Minnesota. Folk-Songs of the South. Collected under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society and Edited by John...

... seat of his limousine. He was 29 years old. The cause of death was cardiac arrest precipitated by a combination of drugs and alcohol. The week he died Williams had three songs on Billboard's Top Ten Country Music chart. Twenty-five thousand people attended his funeral in Montgomery, Ala­ bama...