{"product_id":"9781935243953","title":"The Wild West Show","description":"\"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. \u003cp\u003eEd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loomis House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49869605011696,"sku":"9781935243953","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935243953","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}