Research Catalog

Title

Workin' man blues : country music in California / Gerald W. Haslam ; with Alexandra Haslam Russell and Richard Chon.

Author

Haslam, Gerald W.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Haslam, Alexandra R., 1963-
• Chon, Richard.

Description

xii, 379 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

• California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys the Golden State's contributions to what is today the most popular music in America.
• At the same time he illuminates the lives of the white, working-class men and women who migrated to California from the Dust Bowl, the Hoovervilles, and all the other locales where they had been turned out, shut down, or otherwise told to move on.

Subject

Country music > California > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and indexes.

Contents

A Musical Interlude: Bakersfield, 1994 -- 1. Country Music - Roots and Stems -- 2. The Crockett Family -- 3. 1920s -- 4. Gene Autry -- 5. 1930s -- 6. Bob Wills -- A Musical Interlude: Penngrove, 1994 -- 7. 1940s -- 8. Spade Cooley -- 9. 1950s -- 10. Rose and the Maddox Brothers -- 11. 1960s -- 12. Buck Owens -- A Musical Interlude: Los Angeles, 1995 -- 13. 1970s -- 14. Merle Haggard -- 15. 1980s -- 16. Dwight Yoakam -- 17. 1990s -- A Musical Interlude: Bakersfield, 1995.

ISBN

0520218000 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98043061

OCLC

• ocm39839492
• SCSB-14506612

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries