Don't get above your raisin'
Subtitle: country music and the southern working class
By: Bill C. Malone
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Country music -- Social aspects; Working class -- Southern States -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
Genres: Songs and music
Description: "Combining a high-spirited history of country music's roots with vivid portraits of its principal performers, Don't Get above Your Raisin' examines the close relationship between "America's truest music" and the working-class culture that has constituted its principal source, nurtured its development, and provided its most dedicated supporters."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical and discographical references and indexes