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

by Perry Meisel

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This dazzling, adventurous book begins in Colorado with Oscar Wilde. Wilde, observing a casino sign reading, Please don't shoot the piano player; he is doing his best, reflects: "I was struck with this recognition of the fact that bad art merits the penalty of death, and I felt that in this remote city, where the aesthetic application of the revolver was clearly established...my apostolic task would be much simplified".

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195118170

ISBN13:9780195118179

Release Date:December 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:166 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Gothic & Romantic History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Music

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