Country music - books

All that glitters: country music in America. Popular music series. Bowling
Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993.

Bronner, Simon J. Old-time music makers of New York State. 1st ed.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Charters, Samuel Barclay. The country blues. New York, Da Capo Press, 1975.

COMMERCIAL AND, OR FOLK: THE BLUEGRASS INDUSTRY AND BLUEGRASS 
TRADITIONS 

Cooper, B. Lee and Wayne S. Haney. Rockabilly. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 
1990. 

Country: The Biggest Music in America. 1977.

The Country Music Book. 1985.

The Country Music Message. 1989.

Country: The Music and the Musicians: Pickers, Slickers, Cheatin' Hearts, and Superstars. Nashville: Country Music Foundation,1988.

Daniel, Wayne W., 1929. Pickin' on Peachtree: a history of country music in
Atlanta, Georgia. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

EVENT SONGS (AMERICAN BALLADS AND EARLY COUNTRY-MUSIC)

Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music. 1993.

Gaillard, Frye, 1946. Watermelon wine: the spirit of country music. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.

Grand Ole Opry. 1989.

Green, Douglas B. Country Roots: The origins of country music. NY: Hawthorn
Books, 1976.

Hemphill, Paul, 1936. The good old boys. New York, Simon and Schuster,
1974.

Lomax, John, III. Nashville: music city USA. New York: Abrams, 1985.

Malone, Bill C. Country music U.S.A.; a fifty-year history. Austin,
published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas
Press, 1968, rev. ed. 1985.
Probably the best single volume study.

Malone, Bill C. Singing cowboys and musical mountaineers: southern culture
and the roots of country music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Malone, Bill. Southern Music/American Music. U. Press of Kentucky, 1979.

Morthland, John. The best of country music. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1984.

Music City Babylon. 1992.

Nash, Alanna. Behind closed doors: talking with the legends of country
music. 1st ed. New York: A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1988. 

Price, Steven D. Take me home; the rise of country and western music. New
York, Praeger Publishers, 1974.

Sing your heart out, country boy. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, 1975.

Tassin, Myron. Fifty years at the Grand Ole Opry. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub.
Co., 1975.

Tribe, Ivan M. Mountaineer jamboree: country music in West Virginia.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n Roll. 1984.
origins of rock in country music

Wolfe, Charles K. Kentucky country: folk and country music of Kentucky.
Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

Wolfe, Charles K. Tennessee strings: the story of country music in
Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977.

Wright, John. Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World 
of Traditional Bluegrass Music. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993.

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