Greil Marcus on "The Rose and the Briar"

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Author, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus is the co-editor (with Sean Wilentz) of a book called "The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad." Marcus talks with Steve Paulson about the ballad tradition and we hear several examples.