Roadrunner

by Joshua Clover

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lover' 1972 song "Roadrunner" captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for modern moonlight, the made world, and rock & roll. In Roadrunner, cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover charts both the song's emotional power and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478013478
• ISBN13: 9781478013471
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 144 Pages