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Mountaineer jamboree : country music in West Virginia

Title
Mountaineer jamboree : country music in West Virginia / Ivan M. Tribe.
Author
Tribe, Ivan M.
Publication
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1984.

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Description
xiii, 233 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
This is a history not simply of famous personages but of those who have worked and shared and contributed their creative spirit to give musical expression to West Virginia's values and heritage.
Subject
  • Country music > West Virginia > History and criticism
  • Country music
  • Countrymusic
  • Geschichte
  • West Virginia
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [203]-206.
  • Discography: p. [207]-210.
Contents
The mountaineer folk music heritage -- Pioneer recording artists -- WWVA and the "World's Original Jamboree" -- Tune in : radio to 1942 -- Country comes to television -- The renaissance of folk and the rise of bluegrass -- West Virginia and the national country scene -- Retrospect -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Discographical note -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0813115140
  • 9780813115146
LCCN
84007467
OCLC
  • ocm10751716
  • 10751716
  • SCSB-606466
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library