Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America

by David A. Westbrook

Welcome to New Country shows (as opposed to argues) how and why commercial new country music is a major collective achievement, on par with jazz and the Broadway musical. A traditionally Southern and working class idiom has been transformed into a national and middle class mode of expression that articulates many of the hopes and concerns of life in America today. At its most interesting, new country music is music for the middle: middle class, middle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549976982
• ISBN13: 9781549976988
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"