Country Music Message (C)

by Jimmie N. Rogers, Jimmie Rogers, ROGERS JIMMIE

Book Overview

The Country Music Message: Revisited is more than history of commercial country music, a discussion of the performers, or a compilation of song lyrics. It is an examination of the way the "message" in country songs is related and received: Why the songs move us the way they do.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557280517
• ISBN13: 9781557280510
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A respectful analysis of America's most popular music genre.

After a look at "the process" -- how the message gets to the listener -- Rogers devotes the bulk of his book to the content of the message: Hurtin' love, happy love, cheatin' love and "just livin'". He closes with a look at the audience. This is an eminently readable book and manages to avoid the fawning superficiality of others, including most so-called country star autobiographies (... written with ...) but also any kind of condescension. Rogers does not lose sight of the inherent humour in much of country poetry and he stresses the crucial connection between singer and audience. He really writes about country before Garth Brooks and Shanaia Twain, but some of his analysis can be applied even to pop country, for instance the three-minute story structure. This is a fun book for everyone who enjoys country music and may seriously wonder why... Ole J. Thienhaus