Research Catalog

Title

Country music, U.S.A. / by Bill C. Malone.

Author

Malone, Bill C.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xv, 628 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

• "Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
• This second revised edition includes an extensive new chapter that continues the story from 1985 to 2002, along with an annotated listing of books and recordings which came out during that time."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Country music, USA

Subject

• Country music > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-569), discography, and indexes.

Contents

1. The Folk Background before Commercialism -- 2. The Early Period of Commercial Hillbilly Music -- 3. The First Country Singing Star: Jimmie Rodgers -- 4. Country Music during the Depression -- 5. The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music -- 6. The War Years: The National Expansion of Country Music -- 7. The Boom Period: The Emergence of a Big Business, 1946-1953 -- 8. The Development of Country-Pop Music and the Nashville Sound -- 9. The Reinvigoration of Modern Country Music, 1960-1972 -- 10. Bluegrass -- 11. Country Music, 1972-1984 -- 12. Tradition and Change: Country Music, 1985-2002.

ISBN

• 0292752628 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780292752627 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002004792

OCLC

• ocm49493584
• SCSB-9093678

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries