Country Music: The Rough Guide
- ISBN-10
- 1858285348
- ISBN-13
- 9781858285344
- Series
- Country Music
- Category
- Country music
- Pages
- 596
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rough Guides
- Author
- Kurt Wolff
Description
Traces the growth of country music as an industry, and includes biographies of hundreds of performers, album reviews, and background stories of songs.
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- 2019-10-23
- 160 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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