From Greil Marcus' Massey lectures at Harvard, about three key moments of the musical hisory of the USA: Ballad of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan, (approximately one third of the book), Last Kind Words Blues by Geeshie Wiley and I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground by Bascom Lamar Lunsford.
The book has been translated into German in 2016 and French in 2018
Harvard
University Press, Cambridge/London, 2015, The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures,
in the History of American Civilization. Hardcover, 176 pages. ISBN 9780674187085.
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Paperback, 154 pages,
uncorrected proof.
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