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Country : living legends and dying metaphors in America's biggest music / Nick Tosches.
| Author/creator | Tosches, Nick |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Revised edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1985. |
| Description | x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface to the revised edition -- Thela in the New World -- Orpheus, gypsies and redneck rock 'n' roll -- The girl singer -- Loud covenants -- Emmett Miller, 1 -- Yodeling cowboys and such -- Emmett Miller, 2 -- Stained panties and coarse metaphors -- West Virginia Hills are in the Bronx, says Barn Barnum -- You're going to watch me kill her -- Cowboys and niggers -- Yeah, but they break if you sit on them -- Northeast Mississippi, 1953. |
| Abstract | Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, this book 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 illustrated, this book stands as a provocative and subversive exploration of American musical culture. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 84027585 |
| ISBN | 0684183471 (hard) : |
| ISBN | 0684183455 (pbk.) : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3524 .T67 1985 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |