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Country

Nick Tosches

1977258 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1977
first published
  • 1979Dell Publishing Co. · 258 pagesISBN 9780440514404
  • 1985C. Scribner's Sons · 260 pages · ENGISBN 9780684183473
  • 1989Secker & Warburg · 260 pages · ENGISBN 9780436532016
  • 2009Hachette Books · ENGISBN 9781322579085
  • 2009Hachette Books · ENGISBN 9780786750986
  • 1985Scribner · 296 pagesISBN 9780684183466
  • 1985Charles Scribner's Sons. · 260 pagesISBN 9780684183459
  • 1996Da Capo Press · 290 pages · ENGISBN 9780306807138

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.

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