Jones Steven L - Murder Ballads Old & New A Dark & Bloody Record - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Murder 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 Erlkonig and the Manson Family.
Title: Murder Ballads Old & New A Dark & Bloody Record
Author(s): Jones Steven L
Publisher: Feral House U. S.
Barcode: 9781627311335
Pages: 224 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/12/2023
Category: Music