Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

by Cecelia Tichi

Book Overview

With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music acknowledges the significance of country music as part of an authentic American heritage and turns a loving, critical eye toward understanding the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321688
• ISBN13: 9780822321682
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"