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Genre/Form: | Country music Encyclopedias Encyclopédies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Encyclopedia of country music. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)642376752 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Kingsbury; Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum (Nashville, Tenn.) |
ISBN: | 0195116712 9780195116717 0195176081 9780195176087 |
OCLC Number: | 38106066 |
Awards: | Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award, 1999. |
Description: | xi, 634 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
Contents: | [Alphabetical entries] -- The look of country : the colorful history of country music costuming / Holly George-Warren -- The folk and popular roots of country music / Norm Cohen -- The gospel truth : Christianity and country music / Bill C. Malone -- Extra! Read all about it! : the literature of country music / Nolan Porterfield -- Country music as music / Bill Evans -- The center of Music City : Nashville's Music Row / John Lomax III -- The talking machine : how records shaped country music / Colin Escott -- It all begins with a song : a brief history of country songwriting / Walter Carter -- The South and country music / Bill C. Malone -- From schoolhouses to arenas : a history of country music touring / Ronnie Pugh. |
Responsibility: | compiled by the staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum ; edited by Paul Kingsbury with the assistance of Laura Garrard, Daniel Cooper, and John Rumble. |
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Abstract:
An encyclopaedia of country music from the 1920s to the present with over 1300 entries and a colour section of rare single and album covers. Ten essays explore country music as it relates to Southern culture, religion, gospel music, recording technology, songwriting and costuming.
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