Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West
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Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not...
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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A narrative particle-accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn...
Dancing in the Ring
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Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many – including Catherine McIntosh...
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Emotionally Weird
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On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge...
The Reluctant Escapologist
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An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise - and partial fall - of Fringe Theatre, Mike Bradwell's...
Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
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A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when...
Fifty Cents and a Box Top: The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
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From Ann Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso...
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature
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There was a time when "the Beats" seemed a familiar, even fixed, pantheon: Kerouac, Ginsberg,...
Lighters in the Sky: The All-Time Greatest Concerts, 1960-2016
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Music lovers know there's something magical about seeing the right band at the right time. Some...
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