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I shot a man in Reno : a history of death by murder, suicide, fire, flood, drugs, disease, and general misadventure, as related in popular song
- Title
- I shot a man in Reno : a history of death by murder, suicide, fire, flood, drugs, disease, and general misadventure, as related in popular song / Graeme Thomson.
- Author
- Thomson, Graeme.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 253 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-234) and index.
- Contents
- Death ain't nothin' new: from John Barleycorn to John Walker's blues -- Teenage wildlife: from sob to suicide -- Blood on the floor: murder, music and morality -- How does it feel?: death and the sixties -- Appetite for self destruction: oblivion songs -- Sweetness follows?: into the great beyond -- Gangsta gangsta: rap reclaims the murder song -- Sometimes it snows in April: the music of loss -- Who wants to live forever?: the fat lady's songbook -- The art of dying (slight return) -- Epilogue. To die for: the forty greatest death songs.
- Call Number
- JMD 08-1151
- ISBN
- 9780826428578 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0826428576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008017486
- OCLC
- 182731953
- Author
- Thomson, Graeme.
- Title
- I shot a man in Reno : a history of death by murder, suicide, fire, flood, drugs, disease, and general misadventure, as related in popular song / Graeme Thomson.
- Imprint
- New York : Continuum, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-234) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JMD 08-1151