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Sing Me Back Home - Southern Roots and Country Music (Hardcover) Loot Price: R819
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Sing Me Back Home - Southern Roots and Country Music (Hardcover): Bill C. Malone

Sing Me Back Home - Southern Roots and Country Music (Hardcover)

Bill C. Malone

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.

General

Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: American Popular Music Series
Release date: February 2017
Authors: Bill C. Malone
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-5586-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > Biography > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western
LSN: 0-8061-5586-8
Barcode: 9780806155869

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