#knoxville girl

[dahliaduvide]

"His name is lost to history, but perhaps he wouldn’t mind. His motivation was a speedy payday, not posterity. A ballad that stirred the passions could sell for a penny. Sometimes he sold his work directly to the printshops, but he often took to the streets himself. He borrowed tunes from familiar songs, and had a talent for singing his work that helped him draw a crowd and sell his broadsides."

"Our modern notion of a songwriter would have been nonsensical to him, of course. His trade was partly creative, but his task was also to record and remember the familiar songs already sung, and re-shape them for new events and local happenings. He was a kind of tabloid journalist in his time. Today, we might think of him as a historian of oral traditions, a cataloger of folkways. But that’s not quite right. He was no mere archivist, no passive documentarian. He shaped and reshaped these traditions. Writing was an astonishing technology, and the reach of the printing press gave it newfound power. Oral traditions were chaotic, unfixed, unwieldy—stories forever in revision, never complete. Versions would branch without end, and older branches would be lost with time. How did the lyrics go? Well, that would depend. You could say a song existed in superposition, until someone sang it in their particular way."

"Though he would have been dismissed as a scabrous hack at the time, the ballad writer has such a knack for poetic and efficient depictions of monstrous violence that it can start to feel like he is an artist, or a proto-artist, who is governed by a bloodthirsty aesthetic. But the truth is, he may not be a single man—he may be a composite, his single authorship an anachronism. Or he may be merely a transcriber. The song’s structure and rhythm are so clean that it suggests a writer’s hand, but it could be that the story and its language were born entirely in song, from the community. Later, scholars would bicker over what counts as folk tradition, but a song’s evolutions in oral tradition and popular writing surely would have crossed back and forth countless times. The past is so foreign and strange that we should be left humble when we write our histories. Whether he is one writer, or several writers, or the people as a whole, the shape of his thoughts—his entire manner of thinking—is unreachable."

Excerpts.

Thoughts.

Truly a beautifully written article, and you should totally take the time to read the entire thing. He interweaves perspectives from performers, listeners, and even what the creators of these broadside murder ballads might have been like. Artful writing, hard thoughts, and self-examination.

This article really put into words a vital part of my vision for this project, creating modern murder ballads to draw attention to cases, raise awareness and hopefully get some justice for the Knoxville girls of today.

[manitat]

Magnolia Electric Co. - KnoXVIlle Girl

[stephengloversgf]

This picture is everything and more

[prettyprettypretttyalien]

i love these posts so i made my own this was highly enjoyable tbh

hopefully this isnt too niche

[jackassbrainrot]

reader who’s kind of like pamela anderson😳? popular for being a bombshell and her style and also just happens to be one of the cuntiest members of jackass

a/n: I have to many thoughts to make it into a cohesive fic sorry but!! got about a million hcs for you! hope you like em! she is everything I want to be

bombshell jackass member!!

you met spike while you were working on a movie together

you became friends quickly and started hanging out outside of work

he told you about a new tv show he was working on, asking you if you'd like to be involved in a few skits

of course you said yes

as soon as you walk on set, all eyes are on you

everyone starts bombarding spike with questions

"what's she doing here?" "how'd you get her to agree to this?" "she's out of our budget!"

the initial shock is quickly replaced by their shock at how willing you are to try any stunt

tremaine loves how much footage he's getting out of you

"I think we have a new main star"

knoxville doesn't even get offended, just scared that you're going to die as you step on a skateboard. in heels. blindfolded.

you get absolutely destroyed the first time you try that

they all think they just killed the fucking movie star

but you get up, laughing your ass off

"I HAVE to try that again!"

the guys are both scared and kind of turned on by you

the media is even more scared and turned on

everyone being confused as to why an accomplished actress is running around pulling pranks on random people

soooo many headlines

being besties with stephanie !!

and hating that you became "the jackass girl" without her after her injury

doing gnarly tricks in full glam

being the best and worst role model for young girls

showing that you can be both feminine and badass but also influencing them to do dumb shit

always outshining the guys at premiers and parties

the guys being really protective of you whenever interviewers are being sexist

you still do other movies and shows but you always come back to your little band of idiots

they're like your guard dogs

who needs a bodyguard when you have a bunch of professional idiots that don't mind getting hurt around you all the time

[catty33]

STOP HES SO SILLY U DONT UNDERSTAND

[stephengloversgf]

I am not being normal about this.

[ashlynnlylim]

Oh to prod along the insides of his mouth and touch his face and scrape the behinds of his teeth

[iiluvvme]

“ go easy on me “ ✯ ּ  ֗ ִ   ּ ۪ 

  ࣪ .  ✪ 𓈒 ﾟ “ wouldn’t dream of it , peej “

( ass kicked by a girl — knoxville edition ! )

[xxknoxvixenxx]

hottest knoxville moment?

this will forever take the cake for me if i’m perfectly honest 💋

[totalknoxout]

all this and no brains too

[littletroubledoll]

being johnny knoxville’s midwest chick

[jackasswhre]

only girl in jackass moodboard♡♡

[millieewilliee]

Eeeeeee girls I see my boyfriend tomorrow I’m soooooooo excitedddddd I acc can’t wait like omgggg 🙌 and we’re allowed a 2 night sleepoverrr eeeeeeeee

[1800girlsgirl]

☆ 𝚓𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍 ☆

“johnny you cant skate for shit”

“DUDE that trick was sick as fuck!”

“ryan tell bam to leave me the FUCK ALONE”

the skater

[stephengloversgf]

Hello there tumblr