Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (MERCER UNIVERSITY LAMAR MEMORIAL LECTURES) - Hardcover

Book 10 of 33: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.

Malone, Bill C.

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An examination of the precommercial heritage of country music

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Our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers.

Winner of the Ray and Pat Browne Award, Popular Culture Association

About the Author

BILL C. MALONE, as a performer and a scholar, has been immersed in country music for most of his life. Now retired from Tulane University, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly radio show, "Back to the Country." He is the author of Country Music, U.S.A., Don't Get above Your Raisin', and other books.

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