Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven
- ISBN-10
- 1604739347
- ISBN-13
- 9781604739343
- Category
- Country music
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Author
- Curtis W. Ellison
Description
A social history of country music from the 1920s to the present, discussing such artists as Patsy Cline, Grandpa Jones, Dolly Parton, and Garth Brooks.
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