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035			_a(OCoLC)1315537871 _z(OCoLC)1315739213
037			_bConsortium Book Sales & Dist, C/O Ips Jackson 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 _nSAN 631-8630
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100	1		_aJones, Steven L., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMurder ballads old & new : _ba dark and bloody record / _cby Steven L. Jones.
246	1	1	_aMurder ballads old and new.
264		1	_aPort Townsend, WA : _bFeral House, _c2023.
264		4	_c℗♭2023.
300			_a254 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Chapter One: Ancient History: Origins of the Modern Murder Ballad -- Digging for Clues in the Fatal Flower Garden -- You Can't Win a Race with a Cannonball -- The Triplett Tragedy -- Pat Hare Murders His Baby -- Chapter Two: Hardly Getting Over It: Contemporary Reckonings with Tragedy -- Suffer Little Children -- Getting Home Alive -- Like a God with a Thunderbolt -- And Everybody Cried -- Chapter Three: Game Changers, Outlaws, and Folk Heroes.
505	8		_aA Walkin' Chunk a Mean-Mad -- Postcards of the Hanging -- The Day John Kennedy Died -- Charles Manson Murders the '60s -- Chapter Four: Hard Work and Hard Times: Songs of Labor and Strife -- And Who Killed the Miner? -- Honey, Take a Whiff on Me -- Hard Time Killing Floor -- Worse than the Thing that Possessed Me -- Chapter Five: Fancies of Love, Fantasies of Death -- Whisperer in Darkness -- Full Moon, Dark Heart -- Murder in the Red Barn -- When You Get to the Bottom, We'll Kiss You to Sleep -- Chapter Six: Lost and Found -- Wrecks on the Highway -- In the Cool Room -- On the Rails, Alive and Dead -- Coda: Hurt -- Outro -- Acknowledgements -- Song Licensing Acknowledgments -- Index: The Victims, Crimes, & Tragedies that Inspired the Songs -- Back Cover.
520			_aMurder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and multiple styles, including punk, post-punk, alt-country, and folk. The book is a graveyard stroll past tombs both well-kept and half-hidden. Murder Ballads Old & New excavates facts about killers, victims, and the folkloric storytellers who disseminated their tales in song. Author Steven L. Jones focuses the tragic ballad as "an act of remembering and a soul-reckoning with the ineffable." Songs examined range from obscure tunes from the founding days of the United States to familiar canonical songs learned in schoolrooms and honkytonks. Jones tackles each song in a manner that's equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical as he uncovers stories that reveal larger contexts and maps the lineages of songs and themes, forebears, and ancestors. Murder Ballads Old & New includes a wide range of songs and performers from the relatively unknown (Boiled in Lead, Freakons, Nelstone's Hawaiians) to the ironically famous (Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth). Highlights include tales of Muddy Waters guitar sideman Pat Hare, whose incendiary blues boast "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" proved grimly prophetic. And honky-tonk pioneer Eddie Noack, whose morbid stab at late-career rebirth, "Psycho," couldn't match the bottomless tragedy of his own life. As well as Depression-era holdup man Pretty Boy Floyd, Schubert's mythical Erlk©œnig, and the Manson Family. Murder Ballads Old & New is a compelling delve into the perennial American fascination with True Crime. Includes archival and historical black & white images.-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMurder _xSongs and music _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aBallads _xHistory and criticism.
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