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Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll Paperback - 1996

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.

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n the spring of 1607 a man named John Laydon, or Lydon, came to America.

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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.

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  • Title Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
  • Author Nick Tosches
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 3rd ed.
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Date 1996-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306807138 / 0306807130
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Country/Cowboy
  • Library of Congress subjects Country music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96018214
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.642

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  • Publishers Weekly, 10/21/1996, Page 0

About the author

Nick Tosches is from Newark, New Jersey. He is the author of four previous novels, Me and the Devil, In the Hands of Dante, Cut Numbers, and Trinities. His nonfiction works include Where Dead Voices Gather, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Dino, Power on Earth, Hellfire, Country, and Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll. He lives in New York City.
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