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A Riff On Billy The Kid, Richard H. Underwood
A Riff On Billy The Kid, Richard H. Underwood
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In this essay the author discusses Billy Joel’s recording of Billy the Kid and that song's history.
Crimesong: Some Murder Ballads And Poems Revisited, Richard H. Underwood, Carol J. Paris
Crimesong: Some Murder Ballads And Poems Revisited, Richard H. Underwood, Carol J. Paris
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This short Article, by a law professor and a law librarian, was written because of our personal interest in the old ballads, and because of the professor's desire to spice up the “meals-ready-to-eat” diet of problems and cases fed to students in law school courses. But more than anything else, this Article was written for the fun of it. To the extent that we appear to be advancing the occasional high-sounding hypothesis, we want the reader to understand that our speculations are offered only as an invitation to the sociologists, musicologists, and historians. Our backgrounds are limited, and we do …