Devil sent the rain, music and writing in desperate America, Tom Piazza
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Devil sent the rain, music and writing in desperate America, Tom Piazza
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eng
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non fiction
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Devil sent the rain
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703206614
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Tom Piazza
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music and writing in desperate America
Summary
Profiles such cultural icons as Charlie Chan, Norman Mailer, and Bob Dylan, and presents a new collection of essays and writings on music, film, literature, and politics that explore the American landscape and cultural traditions
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Jimmie Rodgers died for your sins -- A light went on and he sang -- The blues : a musical journey -- Sacred and profane in Clarksdale -- True adventures with the King of Bluegrass -- Jimmy Martin, RIP -- The lost man of rock and roll -- Elegy for Carl Perkins -- Trust the song -- Bob Dylan, 1997 -- Leaving the farm -- Gotta serve somebody -- World gone wrong again -- Charlie Chan in New Orleans! -- Blues streak -- Going back to New Orleans -- Seer and seen : an online chat about New Orleans -- An exchange of letters about Why New Orleans matters -- Other people's houses -- Incontinental drift -- Citizen Mailer -- Norman Mailer : a remembrance -- An interview with Tom Piazza on the future of the book -- The devil and Gustave Flaubert -- Note in a bottle
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