Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.
Contents:
Goodbye, Babylon -- Ain't it a pity, I'm in New York City! -- Bluesland : Beale Street, Memphis -- Young and loose and full of juice : Sam Phillips, Sun Studios, and the birth of rock 'n' roll -- I'm going to Graceland -- Trail of the hellhounds : Clarksdale's deep Mississippi blues -- Music City, USA : building the Nashville sound -- I'm going where there's no depression : alternative country -- I-64 west : Charlottesville, Lexington, Charleston -- Country rolls on : minstrel shows, race, and the rise of radio -- Ain't that a pretty ole mountain? : Appalachia, the Carter family, and early country music -- The little old country general store from Lebanon, Tennessee : Cracker Barrel's Americana -- A matter of song! : John Lomax, Lead Belly, Moses Asch, and Folkways Records -- Making familiar strange : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and the birth of Smithsonian Folkways -- You won't find it so hot if you ain't got the do re mi : Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and the folk revival of the 1960s -- The new, weird, hyphenated America : indie-folk and the next American revival.
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