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The country music reader
Paperback. English.
Published
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
This volume provides an anthology of primary source readings encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present, offering firsthand...
Rockin' out: popular music in the U.S.A
Paperback. English.
Published
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson, 2013
6th edition. / by Reebee Garofalo, Steven Waksman
'Rockin Out' offers a comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States that takes the reader from the invention of the phonograph to...
High lonesome: the American culture of country music
Paperback. English.
Published
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994
What does the "country" in country music mean? Most interpret country as a regional or folk music that belongs to people in the hills and in honky-tonks...
The Cambridge companion to blues and gospel music
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of 20th-century culture...
The bluegrass reader
Paperback. English.
Published
Urbana, [Ill.]: University of Illinois Press; Chesham: Combined Academic [distributor], 2006
This is a guide to bluegrass music that traces the development of this musical genre, since its origin in Anglo-American folk tradition. Featuring writers...
Sounding the margins: collected writings 1992-2009
Paperback. English.
Published
Kingston, NY: Deep Listening Publications, 2010
The selling sound: the rise of the country music industry
Paperback. English.
Published
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press; Chesham: Combined Academic [distributor], 2008
While country music's apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are the genre's most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold...
Country music, U.S.A
Paperback. English.
Published
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press; Chesham: Combined Academic [distributor], 2003
2nd rev. ed
This is widely regarded as the definitive history of American country music, starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South. The new edition...
Give my regards to Eighth Street: collected writings of Morton Feldman
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge, Mass.: Exact Change; London: Turnaround [distributor], c2000
Afterword by Frank O'Hara Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th Century. While his music is known for...
Repeating ourselves: American minimal music as cultural practice
Paperback. English.
Published
Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of California Press, 2005
Where did music minimalism cone from and what does it mean? Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer...
