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Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Now Malone has rewritten and extensively revised that classic work, exploring the past of country music in even greater depth and tracking its history to the present day. In the past two decades, observers of the country music scene have witnessed the rise of the Nashville sound, the urban folk revival, rockabilly, country pop and rock and the "crossover" phenomenon, the Austin scene, and the explosive popularity of such performers as Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton. Malone brilliantly surveys these recent trends, giving both scholars and fans of country music a history that is at the same time immensely readable and authoritative. The newly revised book remains the best full-scale history of country music available, but is now richly interpretive as well, insightfully placing singers and songs within their social, cultural, and historical context. From Jimmie Rodgers to Jerry Jeff Walker, from the Carter Family to the Flying Burrito Brothers, country music has swept from being the music of the rural South, expressive of the culture and isolated lives of its people, to a national and even international phenomenon. Malone's revised Country Music, U.S.A. is essential reading for all who wish better to understand the music and the society that nourished its growth.
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