The Women of Country Music: A Reader

by Charles K. Wolfe

Book Overview

Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music . Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920s career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50s honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122805
• ISBN13: 9780813122809
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher