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Country

The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

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By Nick Tosches

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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.

On Sale
Aug 22, 1996
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9780306807138

Nick Tosches

About the Author

Nick Tosches (1949-2019) was the author of four previous novels, Me and the DevilIn the Hands of DanteCut Numbers, and Trinities. His nonfiction works include Where Dead Voices GatherThe Devil and Sonny ListonDinoPower on EarthHellfireCountry, and Unsung Heroes of Rock ‘n’ Roll. He lives in New York City.

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