Sleigh Rides, Jingle Bells, and Silent Nights: A Cultural History of American Christmas Songs

by Ronald D. Lankford Jr.

"Santa Claus, singing cowboys, love, hymns, satire, snow, Bing and Dean and Frank, fictional reindeer and warbling chipmunks: American Christmas music Ronald Lankford has the rare ability to reconcile the sacred and the profane in an easy narrative that manages both to cherish and illuminate the vast contradictions that adhere to December 25th in the U.S.A. "--Karal Ann Marling, author of Merry Christmas Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday "Thorough...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813044928
• ISBN13: 9780813044927
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.0"