Country Music Cowboy

Author : Sasha Summers
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492688631

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Country Music Cowboy by Sasha Summers Pdf

"A hot romance and a fast galloping plot."—JODI THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author, for Jace What's a country music star to do when his world is falling apart around him? Can he find his way back home? According to his record label, Travis King's drinking and partying has to stop. Or else... Image rebranding means joining AA and singing opposite one of the industry's rising stars at an upcoming awards show. It wouldn't be so bad if Loretta Gram wasn't cold as ice. No matter how hard he turns on the charm, she won't give him a break. It looks like this cowboy has finally met his match. Loretta is still grieving the death of her original singing partner, and she doesn't have it in her to deal with playboy Travis King. But her career is all she has, so if singing with the Three Kings is what she needs, she'll do it. Loretta isn't as cold as she lets on, but she's had more than her share of heartache. When she finally shows Travis who she is, he knows he'll do anything to be her forever cowboy. Perfect for fans of: Enemies-to-lovers and opposites-attract romance Behind-the-scenes glimpses into country music Characters who find the courage to be their true selves Poignant romance that warms your heart

Author : Don Cusic
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786486052

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The Cowboy in Country Music by Don Cusic Pdf

This series of biographical profiles shines a spotlight on that special place "Where the West meets the Guitar." From Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to contemporary artists like Michael Murphy, Red Steagall, Don Edwards and Riders in the Sky, many entertainers have performed music of the West, a genre separate from mainstream country music and yet an important part of the country music heritage. Once called "Country and Western," it is now described as "Country or Western." Though much has been written about "Country," very little has been written about "Western"--until now. Featured are a number of photos of the top stars in Western music, past and present. Also included is an extensive bibliography of works related to the Western music field.

Author : John Avery Lomax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Ballads, American
ISBN : NYPL:33433076020159

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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax Pdf

Author : Don Cusic
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786463145

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The Cowboy in Country Music by Don Cusic Pdf

This series of biographical profiles shines a spotlight on that special place "Where the West meets the Guitar." From Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to contemporary artists like Michael Murphy, Red Steagall, Don Edwards and Riders in the Sky, many entertainers have performed music of the West, a genre separate from mainstream country music and yet an important part of the country music heritage. Once called "Country and Western," it is now described as "Country or Western." Though much has been written about "Country," very little has been written about "Western"--until now. Featured are a number of photos of the top stars in Western music, past and present. Also included is an extensive bibliography of works related to the Western music field.

Author : Karl Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781439671535

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Traditional Country & Western Music by Karl Anderson Pdf

Traditional Country & Western Music presents historical photographs, memorabilia, and stories about an enduring music genre that took root in America from the late 1920s through the mid-1930s. Although many of our early folk songs originated from the British Isles, Jimmie Rodgers (the "Father of Country Music") and Gene Autry ("America's Favorite Singing Cowboy") became the foundation of modern country and western music. Many regional styles and variations of country and western music developed during the first half of the 20th century, including hillbilly, bluegrass, honky-tonk, rockabilly, southern gospel, Cajun, and Texas swing. Local artists, live radio shows, and regional barn dance programs provided entertainment throughout the Great Depression, World War II, and into America's postwar years. During the 1950s, country and western music became homogenized with the Nashville sound and the Bakersfield sound. By the end of the 1960s, country music completed its move to Nashville, and "western" was dropped from the equation. This book recalls the golden age of country and western music from the late 1920s through the 1960s. Each of the featured artists and programs in this book were once household names. We celebrate these early legends, live radio and television shows, unsung heroes, and local performers from Maine to California.

Author : Clifford R. Murphy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252096617

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Yankee Twang by Clifford R. Murphy Pdf

Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, Yankee Twang delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast. Clifford R. Murphy draws on a wealth of ethnographic material, interviews, and encounters with recorded and live music to reveal the central role of country and western in the social lives and musical activity of working-class New Englanders. As Murphy shows, an extraordinary multiculturalism informed by New England's kaleidoscope of ethnic groups created a distinctive country and western music style. But the music also gave--and gives--voice to working-class feeling. Yankee country and western emphasizes the western, reflecting the longing for the mythical cowboy's life of rugged but fulfilling individualism. Indeed, many New Englanders use country and western to comment on economic disenfranchisement and express their resentment of a mass media, government, and Nashville music establishment they believe neither reflects nor understands their life experiences.

Author : Douglas B. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Country music
ISBN : OCLC:1151396267

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Singing in the Saddle by Douglas B. Green Pdf

Author : Rick Marschall,Richard Marschall
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Country music
ISBN : 0861242602

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The Encyclopedia of Country & Western Music by Rick Marschall,Richard Marschall Pdf

Offers biographical sketches with pictures of over 200 major figures in Country and Western music.

Author : Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199830626

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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks by Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D. Pdf

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to reclaim it for their own progressive scene. These children of the Cold War, post-World War II suburban migration, and the Baby Boom escaped the socially conservative world their parents had created, to instead create for themselves an idyllic rural Texan utopia. Progressive country music--a hybrid of country music and rock--played out the contradictions at work among the residents of the growing Austin community: at once firmly grounded in the conservative Texan culture in which they had been raised and profoundly affected by the current hippie counterculture. In Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene, Travis Stimeling connects the local Austin culture and the progressive music that became its trademark. He presents a colorful range of evidence, from behavior and dress, to newspaper articles, to personal interviews of musicians as diverse as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doug Sahm. Along the way, Stimeling uncovers parodies of the cosmic cowboy image that reinforce the longing for a more peaceful way of life, but that also recognize an awareness of the muddled, conflicted nature of this counterculture identity. Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks brings new insight into the inner workings of Austin's progressive country music scene -- by bringing the music and musicians brilliantly to life. This book will appeal to students and scholars of popular music studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, folklore, American studies, and cultural geography; the lucid prose and interviews will also make the book attractive to fans of the genre and artists discussed within. Austin residents past and present, as well as anyone with an interest in the development of progressive music or today's 'alt.country' movement will find Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks an informative, engaging resource.

Author : Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477315354

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Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird Pdf

“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.” —Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family Story From reviews of previous editions: “Considered the definitive history of American country music.” —Los Angeles Times “If anyone knows more about the subject than [Malone] does, God help them.” —Larry McMurtry, from In a Narrow Grave “With Country Music USA, Bill Malone wrote the Bible for country music history and scholarship. This groundbreaking work, now updated, is the definitive chronicle of the sweeping drama of the country music experience.” —Chet Flippo, former editorial director, CMT: Country Music Television and CMT.com “Country Music USA is the definitive history of country music and of the artists who shaped its fascinating worlds.” —William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music’s folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio into the twenty-first century. In this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Malone, the featured historian in Ken Burns’s 2019 documentary on country music, has revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged.

Author : Andrew Grant Jackson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810882232

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Still the Greatest by Andrew Grant Jackson Pdf

As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com! More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their songs have been recorded and performed. Band biographies, pop music histories, song books, and academic titles on the Fab Four clutter shelves. But never has there been a definitive guide to the finest songs of The Beatles after they called it quits. Still the Greatest is a love song to the songwriting and recording achievements of Paul, John, George, and Ringo after each struck out on his own. In this creative history, Jackson selects the best songs in each solo career and organizes them into fantasy albums they might have formed had the legendary group stayed together. This romp through the post–Beatles history of each artist delves into the circumstances behind the composition, recording, and reception of each work, offering a refreshing take on how spectacular much of The Beatles’ second act truly is. Jackson assesses the more than seventy albums and nine hundred songs the four collectively released, selecting the crème de la crème of their output. Still the Greatest brims with facts (release dates, writing and performing credits, and information about production techniques) and insightful analyses of the music and lyrics. In telling the stories behind the songs, Jackson recounts the remarkable influence the Post Fab Four continued to have long after the big split. Both a handy reference and an engrossing cover-to-cover read, Still the Greatest is an invaluable companion for those who thought it all ended with the 1970 album Let It Be.

Author : Kurt Wolff
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Country music
ISBN : 1858285348

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Country Music by Kurt Wolff Pdf

Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780820325514

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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers by Bill C. Malone Pdf

In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.

Author : Glen Campbell
Publisher : W Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0849911761

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Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell Pdf

Author : Paul Kingsbury,Michael McCall,John Rumble,Jay Orr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195395631

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The Encyclopedia of Country Music by Paul Kingsbury,Michael McCall,John Rumble,Jay Orr Pdf

Covers the important figures, trends, and forms of country music throughout its history--from the Carter Family of the 1920s to Taylor Swift and Keith Urban today.