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Subtitle: a southern town, a country legend, and the last days of a mountaintop honky-tonk
By: John Lingan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780544932531
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social conditions; Mountain people; Social classes; Social life and customs
Description: "In the tradition of Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus and J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate account of social change, country music, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Blue Ridge country king; title: A closer walk with thee; title: Resistance; title: A museum and a mountaintop; title: How to build a city; title: Toxically pure; title: They'll have to carry me out; title: Better neighbors; title: Blessed to be gray.