For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt
edited by Ann Norton Holbrook and Dan Beller-McKenna
University of North Texas Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-1-57441-859-0 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-870-5
Library of Congress Classification ML420.V248F67 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.421642092
TOC
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Highway Kind: Townes Van Zandt’s Legacy
Chapter 2: Townes Van Zandt: The Anxiety, Artifice, and Audacity of Influence
Chapter 3: “My Sorrow Is Real even though I Can’t Change My Plans”: Townes Van Zandt, “Dramatic” Form, and Gender
Chapter 4: Macabre and Mirth: Two Sides of Townes Van Zandt
Chapter 5: Philosophy in a Minor Key: Townes Van Zandt and the Minor Modes
Chapter 6: Meter as Meaning: Psychological Interpretation in Townes Van Zandt’s “High, Low and In Between”
Chapter 7: Shifting Time and Cinematic Images: Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and “Pancho and Lefty”
Chapter 8: “Overproduction” and Townes Van Zandt’s Early Albums
Chapter 9: Mental Illness and the Reception of Townes Van Zandt in the Austin Music Scene
Chapter 10: Townes in His Own Words: Excerpts from Richard Dobson’s The Gulf Coast Boys
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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