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America's music : the roots of country / Robert K. Oermann.
- Title
- America's music : the roots of country / Robert K. Oermann.
- Author
- Oermann, Robert K.
- Publication
- Atlanta : Turner Pub., c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML3524 .O33 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Turner Publishing, Inc. publisher.
- Description
- 240 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- Here is a lavishly illustrated personal history of country music, from the beginning through the present - a living history served up by the folks who know what it's all about: Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Jean Ritchie, Naomi Judd, June Carter, Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Clint Black, Tracy Byrd, Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Milsap, Randy Travis, Toby Keith, Diamond Rio, Pam Tillis, Mickey Gilley, Billy Ray Cyrus, K.T. Oslin
- Trisha Yearwood, Wynonna Judd, Crystal Gayle, Charlie Daniels, and many, many others.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Quotations
- Country music
- Quotations.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The birth of a sound -- America's blue yodeler -- The radio barn dance -- Singing cowboys of the Silver Screen -- Western swing (Ah-haa!) -- Honky-tonk kings and queens -- Elvis Presley and the rockabilly rebellion -- The Nashville sound -- The folk revival -- Bluegrass -- Loretta, Tammy & Dolly -- Buck, Merle & George -- From country-rock to urban cowboy -- Denim and diamonds -- Epilogue: yesterday and tomorrow.
- ISBN
- 1570362289 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95042484^/MN
- OCLC
- 33359722
- SCSB-12393803
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library