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Author:
Price, Robert E. (Robert Eugene)
Title:
The Bakersfield Sound : how a generation of displaced Okies revolutionized American music / Robert E. Price.
Publisher:
iUniverse,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Honky-tonk music--Kern County--Kern County--History.
Country music--Kern County--Kern County--History.
Country musicians--Kern County--Kern County--History.
Country musicians--Homes and haunts--Bakersfield.--Bakersfield.
Bakersfield (Calif.)--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265) and index (page 267-275).
Contents:
Chapter 1. The great convergence -- Chapter 2. Toward Eden -- Snapshot : Otherness -- Chapter 3. Honky-Tonk Paradise -- Snapshot : It's that kid! -- Chapter 4. Vegas of the valley -- Chapter 5. What's on TV? -- Snapshot : The Mosrite -- Chapter 6. Buck Owens -- Chapter 7. Merle Haggard -- Snapshot : The Man in Black needs cash -- Chapter 8. The two defining songs -- Chapter 9. The A & R man -- Chapter 10. The mentor, the muse, and the protégé -- Snapshot : Millennium eve -- Chapter 11. The next wave -- Afterword -- Appendix A. The founders -- Appendix B. And a cast of thousands -- Appendix C. The landmarks.
ISBN:
1491772964
9781491772966
OCLC:
(OCoLC)930683102
Locations:
GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

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