The original cover for Borden Deal's 1959 novel The Insolent Breed, which was adapted for the stage as the Broadway musical A Joyful Noise. The novel centers on the freeing effect that an exuberant fiddler and his music have on an uptight preacher and the rural valley community he controls.
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