A spirited and informative history of country music connects the music to the people who listen to it, tracing its evolution among the nation's "working class."

Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class (Music in American Life)

Arts & Photography

MALONE, BILL C.

Music

University of Illinois Press

Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing her own vibrant and powerful vocal style that is a trademark in old-time, bluegrass, and traditional country circles. Working Girl Blues presents forty original songs that Hazel Dickens wrote about coal mining, labor issues, personal relationships, and her life and family in Appalachia. Conveying sensitivity, determination, and feistiness, Dickens comments on each of her songs, explaining how she came to write them and what they meant and continue to mean to her. Bill C. Malone's introduction traces Dickens's life, musical career, and development as a songwriter, and the book features forty-one illustrations and a detailed discography of her commercial recordings.

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens (Music in American Life)

Biographies & Memoirs

Dickens, Hazel

Arts & Literature

Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World (Music in American Life)

The most atypical of bluegrass artists, Bill Clifton has enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, performer, and champion of old-time music. Bill C. Malone pens the story of Clifton's eclectic life and influential career. Born into a prominent Maryland family, Clifton connected with old-time music as a boy. Clifton made records around earning a Master's degree, fifteen years in the British folk scene, and stints in the Peace Corps and Marines. Yet that was just the beginning. Closely allied with the Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, Mike Seeger, and others, Clifton altered our very perceptions of the music--organizing one of the first outdoor bluegrass festivals, publishing a book of folk and gospel standards that became a cornerstone of the folk revival, and introducing both traditional and progressive bluegrass around the world. As Malone shows, Clifton clothed the music of working-class people in the vestments of romance, celebrating the log cabin as a refuge from modernism that rang with the timeless music of Appalachia. An entertaining account by an eminent music historian, Bill Clifton clarifies the myths and illuminates the paradoxes of an amazing musical life.

Combining the history of country music's roots with portraits of its primary performers, this text examines the relationship between 'America's truest music' and the working-class culture that has constituted its principal source, nurtured its development, and provided its most dedicated supporters.

Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing her own vibrant and powerful vocal style that is a trademark in old-time, bluegrass, and traditional country circles. Working Girl Blues presents forty original songs that Hazel Dickens wrote about coal mining, labor issues, personal relationships, and her life and family in Appalachia. Conveying sensitivity, determination, and feistiness, Dickens comments on each of her songs, explaining how she came to write them and what they meant and continue to mean to her. Bill C. Malone's introduction traces Dickens's life, musical career, and development as a songwriter, and the book features forty-one illustrations and a detailed discography of her commercial recordings.

This history of country music places country singers and songs within their social, cultural, and historical context and traces the rise of the Nashville sound, the urban folk revival, rockabilly, country pop and rock, and the "crossover" phenomenon

Country music, U,S.A.: a fifty year history

University of Texas Press

Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio through the first decade of the twenty-first century. This third revised edition includes an extensive new chapter in which new coauthor Jocelyn R. Neal tracks developments in country music in the post-9/11 world, exploring the relationship between the current scene and the traditions from which the music emerged.

Country Music, U.S.A.

Univ of Texas Pr

Neal, Jocelyn R.

Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This second revised edition includes an extensive new chapter that continues the story from 1985 to 2000, along with an annotated listing of books and recordings which came out during that time.

Country Music, U.S.A.: Second Revised Edition

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Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class (Music in American Life)

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens (Music in American Life)

Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World (Music in American Life)

Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class (Music in American Life)

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens (Music in American Life)

Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World (Music in American Life)

Country music, U,S.A.: a fifty year history

Country Music, U.S.A.

Country Music, U.S.A.

Country Music, U.S.A.: Second Revised Edition