Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance

Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled American outlaw territory by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the outlaw figure's heroic associations and expands on its historical, folk, and social forms.