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Country Music
Country music has a history that is deeply rooted in traditional white Southern working-class values, patriotism, conservative politics, ......(Continue Reading) Hornby, Nick, guest ed.; Ben Schafer, series ed. Da Capo best music writing 2001; the year's finest writing on rock, pop, jazz, country, & more - Book
Perseus, Da Capo. 337p. c2001 0-306-81066-2. $14.00. A As a middle-aged guy who firmly believes that rock 'n' roll had already begun its aesthetic ......(Continue Reading)Chicago's "ever lovin' light" on the radio - Sing Out! Radio Partners: folk music on the air
"Oh, yeah, that's The Midnight Special." Lead Belly fans will instantly recognize this sentence as the introduction to his famous song. But the lucky ......(Continue Reading)Hidden country: the secret family tree of country music - Culture and Reviews - Book Review
Where Dead Voices Gather, by Nick Tosches, New York: Little, Brown, 330 pages, $24.95 Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture, by Barbara Ching New York: Oxford Univer...(Continue Reading)Elections and music: let's sing it for the candidate
The Republican convention reverberates to the sound of ZZ Top or the country star Lee Greenwood performing "God Bless the USA". Two weeks earlier, John Kerry brought the curtain down on t...(Continue Reading)
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