Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: To Sound American
- 1 The Hobo in Partch's Early Life and Aesthetic
- Interlude 1 Transients and Migrants
- 2 The Transient Journey
- 3 Bitter Music
- 4 A Knight of the Road
- Interlude 2 Hoboes
- 5 U.S. Highball: Becoming a Musical Hobo
- 6 A Newsboy Letter
- 7 Trading on a Hobo Image
- 8 The Strangest Kind of Hobo
- Epilogue: To Be American
- Glossary of Instruments and Hobo Slang
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: To Sound American
- 1 The Hobo in Partch's Early Life and Aesthetic
- Interlude 1 Transients and Migrants
- 2 The Transient Journey
- 3 Bitter Music
- 4 A Knight of the Road
- Interlude 2 Hoboes
- 5 U.S. Highball: Becoming a Musical Hobo
- 6 A Newsboy Letter
- 7 Trading on a Hobo Image
- 8 The Strangest Kind of Hobo
- Epilogue: To Be American
- Glossary of Instruments and Hobo Slang
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Harry Partch, Hobo Composer , pp. 327 - 342Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014