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Country : the music and the musicians : from the beginnings to the '90s.
- Title
- Country : the music and the musicians : from the beginnings to the '90s.
- Publication
- [Nashville] : Country Music Foundation ; New York : Abbeville Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML3524 .C66 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Country Music Foundation.
- Description
- 432 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- Provides coverage of country music history and its stars from its beginnings to the present, including a list of country's top fifty crossovers.
- Subject
- Country music > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "Text ... compiled by the Country Music Foundation"--Forward.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 418-423.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-424) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins: Hey, hey, tell 'em 'bout us: Jimmie Rodgers visits the Carter family / Nolan Porterfield -- The triumph of the hills: Country radio 1920-50 / Charles Wolfe -- New improved homogenized: country radio since 1950 / Edward Morris -- Tumbling tumbleweeds: Gene Autry, Bob Wills, and the dream of the west / Douglas B. Green -- Country across the country / Ronnie Pugh -- The Golden age of hillbilly music: Blue moon of Kentucky: Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the birth of bluegrass / Neil Rosenberg.
- Honky-Tonkin': Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, and the bartender's muse / Nick Tosches -- Home is where the gig is: life on and off the road / Alanna Nash -- Get rhythm: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and the Rockabillies / Robert Palmer -- Honky-tonk angels: Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline / Robert K. Oermann -- Soundtrack of the South: A fan's view of country / Paul Hemphill.
- Contemporary Country coast to coast: How Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson qualified for "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" / Ken Tucker -- The bottom line: business practices that shaped country music / Bill Ivey -- From the bump-bump room to the barricades: Waylon, Tompall, and the outlaw revolution / Chet Flippo -- Will the circle be unbroken?: country's changing image / Patrick Carr -- Don't get above your raisin': Ricky Skaggs, Alabama, and their contemporaries / David Gates -- No fences: Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakam, and the nineties explosion / Michael McCall.
- ISBN
- 1558598790
- LCCN
- ^^^95147475^/MN
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library