LONG STEEL RAIL (Music in American Life)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 1, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780252011450
Subjects: Cultural studies; Folk Music; Folklore; Transportation; Music; USA; Railroads - General; Music / General; Folk songs, English; History and criticism; Railroads; Songs and music; United States
First sentence: Nothing has so drastically altered the face of this continent as the web of parallel steel ribbons that Americans began to weave across it in the 1830s.