Finding Fogerty (eBook)

Thomas M. Kitts is professor of English and Chair of the Division of English and Speech at St. John’s University, New York.

Introductionby Thomas M. KittsPart One. "Born on the Bayou"Chapter One. "Born on the Bayou": CCR and the Evocation of Placeby Jeff SellarsChapter Two. Reviving the Pre-Sixties: Creedence on a Sixties/Seventies Cuspby Stephen Paul MillerChapter Three. John Fogerty: Middle-Class Heroby Jake SudderthChapter Four. Down to the River: Narrative, Blues, and the Common Man in John Fogerty's Imagined Southern Gothicby Robert McParlandPart Two. "Run Through the Jungle"Chapter Five. "Devil's on the Loose": Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Religious Imaginationby Theodore Louis TrostChapter Six. Flying the Flannel: An Americana Salute to Creedence Clearwater Revivalby Timothy GrayChapter Seven. The 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival Recording Contract and How it Shaped the Future of the Group and its Membersby Hank BordowitzPart Three. "Centerfield"Chapter Eight. America as Patron and Muse: The Creation of the Blue Ridge Rangersby Lawrence PitilliChapter Nine. The 1980s Comeback of John Fogertyby Thomas M. KittsChapter Ten. Multimodal Fogerty: Scoring and Scaffolding the Music of CCR to a Vietnam War Literature Unitby Christian Z. Goering and Wiliam C. SewellPart Four. "Keep on Chooglin"Chapter Eleven. John Fogerty and America's Three Rock Generationsby B. Lee Cooper, with research assistance from William L. SchurkChapter Twelve. The Political Legacy of Fogerty: Forty Years of Parallel Messagesby William J. Miller and Jeremy D. WallingChapter Thirteen. "Rockin' All Over the World": John Fogerty's Place in American Popular Musicby Nick Baxter-Moore