Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/01/1996
ISBN: 9780306807138
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/21/1996