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The listener's guide to country music

Title
The listener's guide to country music / Robert K. Oermann with Douglas B. Green.
Author
Oermann, Robert K.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Facts on File, 1983.

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Book/TextUse in library ML3524 .O35 1983Off-site

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Additional Authors
Green, Douglas B.
Description
137 pages : portraits; 24 cm.
Summary
Presents a history of American country music and discusses bluegrass, western swing, honky-tonk, rockabilly, country rock, etc., and provides biographies of prominent songwriters and performers.
Series Statement
A Quarto book
Subject
  • Country music > History and criticism
  • Country musicians > United States > Biography
  • Country music
  • Country musicians
  • Countrymusic
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Biographies.
Note
  • "A Quarto book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 134-135.
  • Includes discographies and index.
Contents
A historical overview -- Old-time music -- Bluegrass -- Depression era radio -- Singing cowboys -- Western swing -- Country music, 1940s -- Honky-tonk music -- Southeastern revival -- Rockabilly -- The Nashville sound -- Bakersfield -- Cajun music -- Country-rock -- The songwriters -- The outlaws -- Pop-Country.
ISBN
  • 0871967502
  • 9780871967503
LCCN
82005161
OCLC
  • ocm08386161
  • 8386161
  • SCSB-14662336
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library