West Virginia's Traditional Country Music

by Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob L. Bapst

Book Overview

West Virginia has been known for a century as a rich repository of traditional country music and musicians. Beginning in the mid-1920s, phonograph recordings and radios brought this music to a wider audience. With the passing of time and the influence of commercialization, this music developed into what became first known as "hillbilly" and then into the more refined "country" because of its long appeal to those of rural background. Although modernization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467123110
• ISBN13: 9781467123112
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"