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Bill C. Malone

Författare till Country Music, U.S.A.

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Bill C. Malone is professor emeritus of history at Tulane University. His books include Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class and Country Music, U.S.A.

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Födelsedag
1934-08-25
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Tyler, Texas, USA
Utbildning
University of Texas
Yrken
musician
historian

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A good solid history of country music, which I first encountered as a college textbook in 1982. This edition covers country music through about 1980 really well, with separate coverage of bluegrass and a bit of folk music in the mix.

Except the last two chapters, which are new with this edition. I found the next-to-last chapter, by Malone, unsatisfactory--while it talks about late-twentieth-century country music at about the same level of detail as the rest of the book, the treatment's relatively superficial.

The last chapter, by co-author Tracey EW Laird, is just annoying. While there's some good work in the chapter, it's tied way too closely to the Dixie Chicks (a group I love, by the way). It begins and ends with their CMA performance with Beyonce; in between there's discussion of their "controversial" politics. Some of that discussion certainly belongs in this book, but it shouldn't have been central to the chapter.
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joeldinda | Jul 25, 2018 |

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13
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Medlemmar
376
Popularitet
#64,175
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
2
ISBN
38

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