An 80-year survey of the history of country music, including hillbilly, western swing, western cowboy, country rock, bluegrass, and the Nashville sound.
Series Foreword Preface Chronology Introduction: A Brief Survey of 80 Years of Musical History Southeastern Dominance: The Early Years of Hillbilly Music, 1922-1941 Cowboys and the West: Real and Reel Western Swing Hillbilly Music II: Honky-Tonkin Around this Town, 1941-1955 Rockin' in the Country, 1954-1960 The Nashville Sound and More, Since 1958 Biographical Sketches Bibliography Index
IVAN TRIBE is Professor of History in the Social Science Department at University of Rio Grande.
Because fanzine material on country music is far more plentiful
than scholarly writing, this release in the Greenwood Guides to
American Roots Music series is particularly welcome. Country
music's escalating popularity in recent decades coincides with many
university music departments' inclusion of popular and traditional
music in their curricula. Tribe does not present original research
but instead draws on existing studies and on his lifelong love of
country music to craft a detailed history of the genre. Discussing
how country music and its many subgenres evolved in particular
regions of the US, the author takes the reader from early
southeastern fiddle music through Texas western swing, California
and Texas honky-tonk, southern bluegrass, Memphis rockabilly, and
finally the Nashville sound. A brief opening chronology of major
milestones in country music and a lengthy closing section of
biographical sketches of country musicians and musical groups
enhance the narrative. Each chapter is carefully footnoted, and the
selected bibliography, though short, is well chosen. Highly
recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and
professionals; general readers.
*Choice*
Any music library and any library dealing with American cultural
studies will be advised to get this authoritative and atrractively
produced series.
*Reference Reviews*
As part of the series Greenwood Guides to American Roots Music,
this volume aspires to examine music from a particular region of
the US. Here Tribe focuses on country music, beginning with an
overview of styles, then discusses hillbilly music of the
Southeast, cowboy music of the West, regional styles of western
swing, honky-tonk, rockabilly, and bluegrass, and Nashville and
country music there since 1958. Biographical sketches of many
musicians are provided at the end of the book.
*Reference & Research Book News*
The 304-page hardback selectively chronicles country-musics
evolution from 1922 through 2005…. [P]rofessor Tribes contribution
to Greenwoods Guides to American Roots Music is a ready reference
for readers wishing to explore much of what he touches on in
greater detail.
*The Roughstock Network*
…a useful historical account of country music, placing a number of
familiar stories alongside some not so well known ones….The facts
provided are very useful and make for a handy resource for
researchers in the area…
*The Journal of Popular Music*
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