Description
Book SynopsisMerging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, this book delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast.
Trade Review"Contains a wealth of passionate, intrepid, and highly original research on a virtually undocumented and important regional sociomusical history. . . . I want this book on my shelf. It's a winner."--Aaron Fox, author of
Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture"This book will be welcomed by those interested in American culture and country and western music and by fans of working country musicians. Recommended."--
Choice"Clifford Murphy's
Yankee Twang, an in-depth study of the history and current status of country music in New England, stands as a virtually unique and exceptionally welcome addition to the country music bookshelf. . . . A valuable work and a very welcome addition to the literature on country music. One hopes that it might help pave the way for more studies of country music in regions outside the South."--ARSC Journal
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Yankee Twang offers important insights to scholars of regional country music, and when its theoretical frame works to erase untenable biases that leave out certain empirical evidence,
Yankee Twang provides fruitful (re)interpretation of the genre's commercial/folk continuum."--
Journal of Folklore Research"An important contribution to the growing intellectual dialog about American country and western music. . . . The book offers unique insights into issues of class, ethnicity, and region."--Neil Rosenberg, author of
Bluegrass: A History
