The Wild West Show

"The Wild West Show," best known in its modern form as a bawdy rugby song, seems at first glance little more than a loose collection of scatological verses linked together by an almost unrelated chorus; but there is more here than meets the eye: a history stretching back to a 1614 comedy of Ben Jonson, with detours through popular song, vaudeville, and oral tradition.

Ed Cray, author of The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs, traces the long and baffling trail of this, possibly the oldest extant bawdy song, through four centuries of evolution down to the modern day.

Product details

• Authors: Ed Cray, Ed Comp Cray
• Publisher: Loomis House Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2014
• EAN: 9781935243953
• ISBN: 978-1-935243-95-3
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 228 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries