Finding Fogerty

Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America’s great songwriters, one of the rock era’s great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and producers. This essential collection pulls together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and approaches to assess Fogerty’s fifty-year career and to argue for his musical and cultural significance.

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

Introduction by Thomas M. Kitts Part One. "Born on the Bayou" Chapter One. "Born on the Bayou": CCR and the Evocation of Place by Jeff Sellars Chapter Two. Reviving the Pre-Sixties: Creedence on a Sixties/Seventies Cusp by Stephen Paul Miller Chapter Three. John Fogerty: Middle-Class Hero by Jake Sudderth Chapter Four. Down to the River: Narrative, Blues, and the Common Man in John Fogerty's Imagined Southern Gothic by Robert McParland Part Two. "Run Through the Jungle" Chapter Five. "Devil's on the Loose": Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Religious Imagination by Theodore Louis Trost Chapter Six. Flying the Flannel: An Americana Salute to Creedence Clearwater Revival by Timothy Gray Chapter Seven. The 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival Recording Contract and How it Shaped the Future of the Group and its Members by Hank Bordowitz Part Three. "Centerfield" Chapter Eight. America as Patron and Muse: The Creation of the Blue Ridge Rangers by Lawrence Pitilli Chapter Nine. The 1980s Comeba