It still moves
Subtitle: lost songs, lost highways, and the search for the next American music
By: Amanda Petrusich.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780865479500
Subjects: Petrusich, Amanda -- Travel -- United States; Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism; Country music -- History and criticism; Blues (Music) -- History and criticism; United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: "Part travelogue, part musical history, Amanda Petrusich's It Still Moves outlines the sounds of the new, weird America - honoring the rich traditions of gospel, blues, country, folk, and rock that feed it while simultaneously exploring the American character as personified by its songs and landscapes. What is Americana? Where does it come from? Through interviews, road stories, and rich music criticism, Petrusich traces the rise of Americana music from its early origins to its new and compelling incarnations - from Elvis to Iron and Wine, the Carter Family to Animal Collective, Johnny Cash to Will Oldham, Charley Patton to Wilco - and explores how the genre is adapting to the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ain't it a pity, I'm in New York City!; title: Bluesland : Beale Street, Memphis; title: Young and loose and full of juice : Sam Phillips, Sun Studios, and the birth of rock and roll; title: I'm going to Graceland; title: Trail of the hellhounds : Clarksdale's deep Mississippi blues; title: Music City, USA : building the Nashville sound; title: I'm going where there's no depression : alternative country; title: I-64 west : Charlottesville, Lexington, Charleston; title: Country rolls : minstrel shows, race, and the rise of radio; title: Ain't that a pretty ole mountain? : Applachia, the Carter family, and early country music; title: The little old country store from Lebanon, Tennessee : Cracker Barrel's americana; title: A matter of song! : John Lomax, Lead Belly, Moses Asch, and Folkways Records; title: Making familiar strange : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and the birth of Smithsonian-Folkways; title: You won't find it so hot if you ain't got the do re mi : Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and the folk revival of the 1960s; title: The new, weird, hyphenated America : anti-folk, free-folk, free-folk, indie-folk and the next American revival.