A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

by DAMBROSIO ANTONINO

• ISBN13: 9781568584072
• ISBN10: 1568584075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-13
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

In this work, D'Ambrosio reveals the untold story of the making of one of the most controversial and enduring works of political pop art of the 1960s: Johnny Cash's most controversial album, "Bitter Tears."

Author Biography

Antonino D’Ambrosio is the author of Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Politics of Joe Strummer, which will be showed at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. His most recent short film is No Free Lunch, starring comedian Lewis Black. A founder of the new media collective La Lutta, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Before I Had to Fight Back	p. ix
A Heartbeat	p. 1
The Clouds Fall	p. 3
All Passes-Only Art Endures	p. 39
All Causes May Here Find a Place	p. 73
A Guitar	p. 115
The Whippoorwill Cries, the Fox Whimpers	p. 117
Broken Hearts, Bent Journeys	p. 153
All God's Children Ain't Free	p. 171
Grabbing the Air for Something to Hold On To	p. 187
After When the World's on Fire	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 241
A Bibliographical Note	p. 247
Index	p. 265
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