Richard Carlin (Executive Editor, art, art history, and Exec music

Country Music: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Country Music: A Very Short Introduction presents a compelling overview of the music and its impact on American culture through its key artists and styles from the minstrel era to today. Truly the "voice of the people," country music illuminates our cultural story, from our nation's birth to today.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 113mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9780190902841
• ISBN-10: 0190902841
• Artikelnr.: 55467897

Autorenporträt

Richard Carlin is the Grammy Award-winning author of numerous books on popular music, including The Big Book of Country (1995) and Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways (2008). He is also an executive editor of art, art history, and music at Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of illustrations
* Introduction
* 1 Behind the "big bang": The roots of country music
* 2 "Wildwood flowers": Country music goes mainstream: 1923-1930
* 3 "Back in the saddle again": The birth of the singing cowboy,
1930s-1945
* 4 "Honky-tonkin'": Postwar country music: 1945-1959
* 5 "Make the world go away": Nashville and countrypolitan sounds,
1957-1980
* 6 "Mama tried": Country alternatives, from Bakersfield to Austin,
1965-1980
* 7 "Friends in low places": Retro-country and country-pop since 1980
* Coda: Country music in a new millennium
* Further Reading
* Index