Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music / Edition 1

by Bill C. Malone

Overview

In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820325514
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	09/01/2003
Series:	Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Series , #34
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	908,751
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.47(d)

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.

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.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Preface	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Southern Rural Music in the Nineteenth Century	6
2	Popular Culture and the Music of the South	43
3	Mountaineers and Cowboys: Country Music's Search for Identity	69
	Notes	117
	Index	143

Editorial Reviews

This book shows not only the work of a master scholar, but also that of one attuned to the myths, the hopes, and the yearnings of ordinary people.

Journal of Southern History

A very enlightening read.

BookPleasures.com

So succinct and well-documented, all the reader can do is believe it.

Lexington Herald-Leader

The last word on the history of country music remains Malone.

Canon

Provides great insight into country music and southern culture.

Southern Historian

Goes a long way toward filling a bothersome hole in American musical history.

Sing Out!

Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers is a very enlightening read regarding the roots of Country music and provides the definitive explanation and history of the connection between Country music (southern folk music) and cowboy hats.

Midwest Book Review

This book is good enough that readers can only want more.

Journal of American History

The last word on the history of country music remains Malone.

Canon

"Goes a long way toward filling a bothersome hole in American musical history."--Sing Out!

"So succinct and well-documented, all the reader can do is believe it."--Lexington Herald-Leader

"This book shows not only the work of a master scholar, but also that of one attuned to the myths, the hopes, and the yearnings of ordinary people."--Journal of Southern History

“Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers is a very enlightening read regarding the roots of Country music and provides the definitive explanation and history of the connection between Country music (southern folk music) and cowboy hats."--Midwest Book Review

“The last word on the history of country music remains Malone.”--Canon

"Provides great insight into country music and southern culture."--Southern Historian

"This book is good enough that readers can only want more."--Journal of American History

"A very enlightening read."--BookPleasures.com

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