Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers

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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers

Author	: Bill C. Malone
File Size	: 50,7 Mb
Publisher	: University of Georgia Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 August 2003
ISBN	: 9780820325514
Pages	: 170 pages

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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers by Bill C. Malone Book PDF Summary

In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.

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