Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia (Music in American Life)

By Wayne W. Daniel

Book Overview

Traces Atlanta's emergence in the 1920s as a major force in country recording and radio broadcasting. From the Old Time Fiddlers' Conventions and barn dances through the rise of station WSB and other key radio outlets, this work documents the consolidation of country music as big business in Atlanta.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252016874
• ISBN13: 9780252016875
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"