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Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance (Hardcover)
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Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance (Hardcover)
Series: Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture
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With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects,
there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes
to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter
traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a
part of and apart from settled American society by examining outlaw
myth, performance, and perception over time. Since the late
nineteenth century, the outlaw voice has been most prominent in
folk performance, the result being a cultural persona invested in
an outlaw tradition that conflates the historic, folkloric, and
social in a cultural act. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead
Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the
outlaw figure's heroic associations and expands on its historical
(Jesse James, Billy the Kid), folk (John Henry, Stagolee), and
social (tramps, hoboes) forms. He argues that all three performers
represent a culturally disruptive force, whether it be the bad
outlaw that Lead Belly represented to an urban bourgeoisie
audience, the good outlaw that Guthrie shaped to reflect the social
concerns of marginalized people, or the honest outlaw that Dylan
offered audiences who responded to him as a promoter of
clear-sighted self-evaluation. As Carpenter shows, the outlaw and
the law as located in society are interdependent in terms of
definition. His study provides an in-depth look at the outlaw
figure's self-reflexive commentary and critique of both performer
and society that reflects the times in which they played their
outlaw roles.
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