Author

Publication

1996-09-01 - Da Capo Press

Language

English

Word Count

72,500 words, Guess

Page Count

290 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number96018214
  • Goodreads40665
  • LibraryThing305626

Classifications

  • LCCML3524 .T67 1996

Description

Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

First Sentence

n the spring of 1607 a man named John Laydon, or Lydon, came to America.

Excerpt

n the spring of 1607 a man named John Laydon, or Lydon, came to America.

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  • Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' RollPaperbackDa Capo Press1996-09-01
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