Southern Exposure
Subtitle: The Story of Southern Music in Pictures and Words
Publisher: Billboard Books
Published: May 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780823084265
Subjects: Country & western; History of specific subjects; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History & Criticism - General; Ethnomusicology; Social Aspects Of Music; United States - General; Music/Songbooks; Portraits; Music; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; History and criticism; Folk & Traditional; Southern States; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; Folk music; Folk musicians
Description: "This book documents the wide variety of musical styles of the American South, including church music, country music, dance music, traditional blues, electric blues, work songs, western swing, bluegrass, ballads, and story songs.".

"These black-and-white photographs - which cover a one-hundred-year span from the 1850s to the 1950s - were selected from a range of photo archives, including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as prominent private collections. The wide selection includes images from such well-known Farm Security Administration photographers as Russell Lee and Ben Shahn.

Each of the seventy-five photographs is accompanied by an extensive caption that relays a relevant (and often amusing) anecdote, or otherwise gives historical context to the photo."--BOOK JACKET.