Country Music, U.S.A

by Malone, Bill C.

• ISBN13: 9780292752627
• ISBN10: 0292752628
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

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 2000, along with an annotated listing of books and recordings which came out during that time.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction to the Revised Edition of 2002	xiii
The Folk Background Before Commercialism	1	(30)
The Early Period of Commercial Hillbilly Music	31	(46)
The First Country Singing Star: Jimmie Rodgers	77	(16)
Country Music During the Depression	93	(44)
The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music	137	(40)
The War Years: The National Expansion of Country Music	177	(22)
The Boom Period: The Emergence of a Big Business, 1946--1953	199	(46)
The Development of Country--Pop Music and the Nashville Sound	245	(24)
The Reinvigoration of Modern Country Music, 1960--1972	269	(54)
Bulegrass	323	(46)
Country Music, 1972--1984	369	(48)
Tradition and Change: Country Music , 1985--2002	417	(48)
Bibliographical Essays	465	(106)
Guide to Recordings	571	(4)
Index	575	(36)
Index of Song Titles	611