Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven

by Curtis W. Ellison

Book Overview

Since its beginnings in the 1920s, country music has soared beyond an almost exclusively regional audience to become America's most popular form in the 1990s. Seventy years of regional modernization have framed it for broad appeal in today's popular culture.

Here is a fascinating book that offers perspective on contemporary country music's stars, promoters, and fans. It probes deeply to learn how a vibrant country music culture evolved from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878057226
• ISBN13: 9780878057221
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"