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

by Perry Meisel

Book Overview

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".

Starting with the cowboy...

• 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"