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These include the uplifting, Guthrie-esque anthem "Paths of Victory" and the Shakespearean ballad "Seven Curses" (a version of the story in Measure for Measure ), both of which were bumped from The Times They Are A-Changin'.
The migratory quality of lyrics--the fact that lines and whole verses traveled from this song to that one, from blues to mountain ballad or vice versa, regardless of origin or even sense--made for a sort of native Surrealism, a collage by accretion.
When the film shifts to hell, the muscle-bound Satan does a soulful, Meat Loaf-style schlock-rock ballad on his longing for a better world--in this case embodied by a ship of half-naked sailor types lolling about a pool.
The best, "Seasons of Love," [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP] affects the same ensemble solidarity as "What I Did for Love" in A Chorus Line . [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]Both can find no better use for the pop ballad than as group therapy--one for those suffering the vicissitudes of life as a chorus gypsy, the other for those "living in the shadow of AIDS."
With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, published in 1958 by the University of Texas Press, is not only one of the most important academic works on the history of the Chicano, but it is also respected as major scholarship in the field of folklore studies, and specifically on the genre of the ballad.