Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xi, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index. |
Contents |
Ain't it a pity, I'm in New York City! -- Bluesland : Beale Street, Memphis -- Young and loose and full of juice : Sam Phillips, Sun Studios, and the birth of rock 'n' roll -- I'm going to Graceland -- Trail of the hellhounds : Clarksdale's deep Mississippi blues -- Music City, USA : building the Nashville sound -- I'm going where there's no depression : alternative country -- I-64 west : Charlottesville, Lexington, Charleston -- Country rolls on : minstrel shows, race, and the rise of radio -- Ain't that a pretty ole mountain? : Applachia, the Carter family, and early country music -- The little old country store from Lebanon, Tennessee : Cracker Barrel's americana -- A matter of song! : John Lomax, Lead Belly, Moses Asch, and Folkways Records -- Making familiar strange : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and the birth of Smithsonian-Folkways -- You won't find it so hot if you ain't got the do re mi : Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and the folk revival of the 1960s -- The new, weird, hyphenated America : indie-folk and the next American revival. |
Subject |
Petrusich, Amanda -- Travel -- United States.
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Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Country music -- History and criticism.
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Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.
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United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
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ISBN |
9780865479500 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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086547950X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780865479043 (pbk.) |
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0865479046 (pbk.) |
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