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Country Music: An Illustrated History by Authors:Dayton Duncan (Author), Ken Burns (Writer of preface), Susanna Steisel (Researcher), Susan Shumaker (Researcher), Pam Tubridy Baucom (Researcher), Emily Mosher (Researcher), Maggie Hinders (Book designer) is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Country Music: An Illustrated History about?
A gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth centurybased on the eight-part film series. This fascinating history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endless
Who reads Country Music: An Illustrated History?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Authors:Dayton Duncan (Author), Ken Burns (Writer of preface), Susanna Steisel (Researcher), Susan Shumaker (Researcher), Pam Tubridy Baucom (Researcher), Emily Mosher (Researcher), Maggie Hinders (Book designer)
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525520542
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Arts
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (747 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Authors:Dayton Duncan (Author), Ken Burns (Writer of preface), Susanna Steisel (Researcher), Susan Shumaker (Researcher), Pam Tubridy Baucom (Researcher), Emily Mosher (Researcher), Maggie Hinders (Book designer)
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