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Prairie nights to neon lights : the story of country music in west Texas

Title
Prairie nights to neon lights : the story of country music in west Texas / Joe Carr & Alan Munde.
Author
Carr, Joe.
Publication
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©1995.

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Additional Authors
Munde, Alan.
Description
x, 243 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 27 cm
Summary
The powerful historical documentation of west Texas music and the musicians who brought it to life.
Subject
  • Country music > Texas, West > History and criticism
  • Country music
  • Countrymusic
  • Geschichte
  • West Texas
  • Texas > West
  • Texas (West)
Genre/Form
  • Country music
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Country music.
  • Country.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.
Contents
Cowboys, settlers, and fiddlers -- Fiddle bands and medicine shows -- Hard times and good music -- "If you can't dance to it, don't play it" : Western swing and electric honky-tonk -- Mountain music on the prairie -- Country boy rock and roll -- The Nashville connection -- Poets and pickers -- The community musical -- Lubbock and beyond.
ISBN
  • 0896723496
  • 9780896723498
  • 0896723658
  • 9780896723658
LCCN
94048096
OCLC
  • ocm31737577
  • 31737577
  • SCSB-14661696
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library