Country
Subtitle: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780306807138
Subjects: Country & western; Cultural studies; Rock & pop; History and criticism; Music; Music/Songbooks; USA; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; Genres & Styles - Rock; Country music
First sentence: n the spring of 1607 a man named John Laydon, or Lydon, came to America.
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.