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Country by Nick Tosches

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"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;"

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Country by Nick Tosches

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.
Nick Tosches is the author of Hellfire, Unsung Heroes of Rock'n' Roll, Power on Earth, Cut Numbers, Dino, and Trinities.
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ISBN 13 9780306807138
ISBN 10 0306807130
Title Country
Author Nick Tosches
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hachette Books
Year published 1996-08-22
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.