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Sing Me Back Home - Southern Roots and Country Music (Hardcover)
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Sing Me Back Home - Southern Roots and Country Music (Hardcover)
Series: American Popular Music Series
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For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written
about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the
foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new
collection brings together his significant article-length work from
a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record
liner notes. Sing Me Back Home distills a lifetime of thinking
about country and southern roots music. Malone offers the heartfelt
story of his own working-class upbringing in rural East Texas,
recounting how in 1939 his family's first radio, a battery-powered
Philco, introduced him to hillbilly music and how, years later, he
went on to become a scholar in the field before the field formally
existed. Drawing on a hundred years of southern roots music
history, Malone assesses the contributions of artists such as
William S. Hays, Albert Brumley, Joe Thompson, Jimmie Rodgers,
Johnny Gimble, and Elvis Presley. He also explores the intricate
relationships between black and white music styles, gospel and
secular traditions, and pop, folk, and country music. Author of
many books, Malone is best known for his pioneering volume County
Music, U.S.A., published in 1968. It ranks as the first
comprehensive history of American country music and remains a
standard reference. This compilation of Malone's shorter - and more
personal - essays is the perfect complement to his earlier writing
and a compelling introduction to the life's work of America's most
respected country music historian.
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