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400 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393060782
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: Not specified
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The book opens with the moment when Kurt Cobain performed 'In the Pines', a death-haunted song made famous by Leadbelly, the black ex-convict who was a touchstone of primeval folk authenticity in the '30s and '40s. But Leadbelly had been manipulat...
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400 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393060782
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The book opens with the moment when Kurt Cobain performed 'In the Pines', a death-haunted song made famous by Leadbelly, the black ex-convict who was a touchstone of primeval folk authenticity in the '30s and '40s. But Leadbelly had been manipulat...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings