Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820325511
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers by : Bill C. Malone
Download or read book Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers written by Bill C. Malone and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.