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Book SynopsisCelebrating 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.
Table of Contents* Thela in the New World * Orpheus, Gypsies, and Redneck Rock n Roll * The Girl Singers * Loud Covenants * Emmett Millet, 1 * Yodeling Cowboys and Such * Emmett Miller, 2 * Stained Panties and Coarse Metaphors * West Virginia Hills are in the Bronx, Says Barn Barnum * Youre Going to Watch Me Kill Her * Cowboys and Niggers * Yeah, But They Break If You Sit On Them * Northeast Mississippi, 1953
