There is a group of compelling, bewitching folk songs that are part of American's cultural DNA: murder ballads, work songs, sea shanties. Though many of them originated in the British Isles,... More > immigrants brought them here and filtered them through American experiences, making them part of the foundation of American music.
And they are weird. From songs narrated by a bird witnessing murder to a song about a fiddle made of flesh and bone playing the song of its creation, they explore—as Greil Marcus dubbed it—the old, weird America.
The songs may seem initially clear, but they’re also impossible to completely understand. Listening to them, it often feels that there’s an entire world of meaning beneath the lyrics that you know is there but have no hope of accessing. It's that sense of mystery and wonder that is present in each story in Labor and Love.
Besides the comics, each story includes a common or canonical version of the lyrics, recording information, and notes about the song or the comic's creation.< Less
Listen, children, for you will wish to hear where I found the tales which I have told you in this little book. It is long, oh! so long ago, that they were sung up hill and down dale by wandering... More > singers who soon became known all over the country as minstrels, or ofttimes, because they would carry with them a harp, as harpers. In court, in cottage, by princes and by humble folk, everywhere, by every one the minstrels were greeted with delight.< Less
Presenting the whimsically provocative song lyrics of the enigmatic songwriter known as "Skeeter Jackson" illustrated with Photos and Artwork by Keith May.
POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
VICTOR HUGO.
ALFRED DE MUSSET, 1810-1857.
GERARD DE NERVAL, 1801-1855.
HENRI MURGER, 1822-1861.
BALLADS.
The originals of the French folk-songs here translated... More > are to be
found in the collections of MM. De Puymaigre and Gerard de Nerval,
and in the report of M. Ampere.
The verses called a 'Lady of High Degree' are imitated from a very
early CHANSON in Bartsch's collection.
The Greek ballads have been translated with the aid of the French
versions by M. Fauriel.
SPRING.
CHARLES D'ORLEANS, 1391-1465.< Less
POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
VICTOR HUGO.
ALFRED DE MUSSET, 1810-1857.
GERARD DE NERVAL, 1801-1855.
HENRI MURGER, 1822-1861.
BALLADS.
The originals of the French folk-songs here translated... More > are to be
found in the collections of MM. De Puymaigre and Gerard de Nerval,
and in the report of M. Ampere.
The verses called a 'Lady of High Degree' are imitated from a very
early CHANSON in Bartsch's collection.
The Greek ballads have been translated with the aid of the French
versions by M. Fauriel.
SPRING.
CHARLES D'ORLEANS, 1391-1465.< Less
"The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore” is a darkly lyrical original folk tale. More than an any-day ghost story, “Ballad” rambles through the... More > tangled woods of Appalachia, quick-strumming a tale of haints, of bleak hope, and of one soul’s shadowy path to empowerment. Eerily evocative imagery snakes like tendrils of kudzu through a songlike narrative, closing on a chilling refrain that will haunt readers for days to come.
- Ari Michaels
Honorable Mention, The Best Horror of the Year - Vol. 5
2012 Recommended Reading list, Locus Magazine< Less
Deze musical vertelt op koldereske wijze het verhaal van de legendarische heldin uit de Far West, Calamity Jane. Zij stond de dochter die zij had uit een relatie met die andere mythe van het Woeste... More > Wilde Westen, Wild Bill Hickock, af voor adoptie aan een rijke Engelse koopvaardijkapitein, met de bedoeling het meisje een beschaafde opvoeding te geven. Later wilde Calamity Jane haar dochter terug… maar zou die dochter haar onwaarschijnlijke moeder nog aanvaarden? Gebaseerd op historische gegevens, gebracht met een ferme snuif humor en een fikse dosis meeslepende country, folk, rock en blues muziek… een onvervalste western in het Nederlands! - Het musicalscript wordt gevolgd door een verhaal van Patrick Bernauw & Guy Didelez ("Het Ware Verhaal van Calamity Jane") en door hun bekroonde toneelscript "De Dochter van Calamity Jane".< Less
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