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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers

Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music

Bill C Malone author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Published:1st Sep '03

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In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.

Goes a long way toward filling a bothersome hole in American musical history.


So succinct and well-documented, all the reader can do is believe it.


This book shows not only the work of a master scholar, but also that of one attuned to the myths, the hopes, and the yearnings of ordinary people.


Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers is a very enlightening read regarding the roots of Country music and provides the definitive explanation and history of the connection between Country music (southern folk music) and cowboy hats.


This book is good enough that readers can only want more.


Provides great insight into country music and southern culture.


The last word on the history of country music remains Malone.


A very enlightening read.

ISBN: 9780820325514

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 12mm

Weight: 240g

168 pages