A Note on Citation; Introduction: Crossing Over; 1 The Country and the City: King Curtis and the Structure of Black Urbanity; 2 Wilde West; 3 Influence and Originality in Blues Tradition; 4 The Psychedelic Sublime; 5 "I Second That Emotion"; 6 The Cowboy, the Dandy and Willa Gather; 7 Miles Apart?; 8 Virginia Woolf's Crosswriting; 9 The Body English; A Coda on Canonicity and Mythology; Works Cited; Index
What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this study of music, literature and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing the boundaries they share including those between freedom and irony, country and city, cowboy and dandy
