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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century

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Availability:In StockContributor:Barry MazorPublish date:2012-03-13Pages:386
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199891863ISBN-10:199891869UPC:9780199891863Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, History & Criticism, Genres & StylesBook Topic:RockSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCYGZCR04G

In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep 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. His wistful singing, falsetto yodels, bold flat-picking guitar style, and sometimes censorable themes--sex, crime, and other edgy topics--set him apart from most of his contemporaries. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas--working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man--that connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed him. In reconstructing this far-flung legacy, Mazor enables readers to meet Rodgers and his music anew-not as an historical figure, but as a vibrant, immediate force.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199891863ISBN-10:199891869UPC:9780199891863Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, History & Criticism, Genres & StylesBook Topic:RockSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCYGZCR04G
Barry Mazor has been writing about American music since the 1970s. A long-time senior editor for the roots and pop music magazine No Depression, he writes frequently on country and pop music for The Wall Street Journal.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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