num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
titlecomplete: Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
genres: Pop Culture, Cultural Studies, Biography, Music, Criticism, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 801
publisher: Da Capo Press