num_pages: 168
description: 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.
language: English
title: Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music
titlecomplete: Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)
genres: Nonfiction, Music
ratings_count: 26
series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
publisher: University of Georgia Press