High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music

by Cecelia Tichi

Book Overview

What does the 'country' in country music mean? Most interpret country as a regional or folk music that belongs to people in the hills and in honky-tonks, but Cecelia Tichi argues that it is in fact a national music form, one that belongs to all Americans. In High Lonesome , she shows that country music is strongly linked to our nation's literature and art. Country music, Tichi argues, explores the same themes that have intrigued this country's premier...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807821349
• ISBN13: 9780807821343
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"