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Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music Volume 1

Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music Volume 1

Malone, Bill C.

Hardcover

Series: American Popular Music, Book 1

Biographies GeneralCountry & FolkRegional: South

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ISBN10: 0806155868
ISBN13: 9780806155869
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Feb 23 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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