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Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Musicvolume 1

Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Musicvolume 1

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bill C. MaloneSeries:American Popular Music #1Publish date:2017-02-23Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806155869ISBN-10:806155868UPC:9780806155869Book Category:Music, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Personal Memoirs, United StatesBook Topic:Country & Bluegrass, State & LocalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3713Product ID:SC1QCFRVMM

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806155869ISBN-10:806155868UPC:9780806155869Book Category:Music, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Personal Memoirs, United StatesBook Topic:Country & Bluegrass, State & LocalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3713Product ID:SC1QCFRVMM
Malone, Bill C.: - Bill C. Malone is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University. He is the author of numerous books on country music history. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1968 as Country Music, U.S.A. and has subsequently seen print in three revised editions. Malone received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music in 2008. He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly country music radio show.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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