Meeting Jimmie Rodgers - How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century (Paperback)

In the nearly eight decades since his death at age thirty-five, singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers has been an inspiration for numerous top performers-from Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Hank Williams to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Beck. How did this Mississippi-born vaudevillian, a former railroad worker who performed so briefly so long ago, come to be the model for how American roots music stars could become popular heroes? In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the legacy of "The Singing Brakeman" from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown that came with such hits as "Blue Yodel" and "In the Jailhouse Now." As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he performed, whether tough or sentimental, comic or sad. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas that connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed him.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	March 2012
Authors:	Barry Mazor (Freelance Music Historian, Journalist, Critic)
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	386
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-989186-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western Books > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western Promotions
LSN:	0-19-989186-9
Barcode:	9780199891863

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!