Death Discs: An Account of Fatality in the Popular Song by Alan Clayson, Don Craine

Death Discs: An Account of Fatality in the Popular Song

Alan Clayson, Don Craine

213 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

dark funny reflective medium-paced
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Top of the charts 200 years ago were murder ballads - grisly tavern tales of death and misadventure. Nowadays, tragic motorbike accidents and tales of deranged wanderers calling dead lovers show that death is still a popular song subject.

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