Country: Living Legends and Dying Metaphors in America's Biggest Music

by Nick Tosches

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Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven medieval myth and musical miscegenation sex, drugs, murder and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.
  • ISBN10 0684183463
  • ISBN13 9780684183466
  • Publish Date 31 December 1985 (first published 1 November 1977)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 260
  • Language English