The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll

by Perry Meisel

Book Overview

What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this adventurous new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins Romanticism and the blues tradition by focusing on the preoccupation with boundaries that are common to both--the boundaries between freedom and irony, country and city, and cowboy and dandy. Meisel traces the emergence of rock and roll out of jazz and Romantic culture alike as he examines,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118170
• ISBN13: 9780195118179
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"