The Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Magazine, Country Music; Country Music Magazine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812922476 ISBN 13: 9780812922479

Verlag: Times Books, 1994

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Offers profiles of more than six hundred performers, songwriters, and groups, and discusses themes and topics in country music

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c has come of age. It has a rich history in American culture, and its story is well told in this definitive encyclopedia, written with verve and insight by the editors of America's leading and most popular country music magazine. The background of all the major -- and minor -- performers in country music, their greatest hits, fascinating anecdotes about their childhoods, their rise to (or fall from) fame, the truth behind publicity releases and general rumor -- it's all here, from Roy Acuff and Billy Ray Cyrus to Patsy Cline and Reba McEntire.<br><br>The Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of country music from its folkloric origins to its present status as the popular music of choice for 42 percent of the adult population, according to industry estimates. Indeed, in the past decade, the country music audience has tripled. Between 1988 and 1990, sales of country records jumped 56 percent as sales of rock-'n'-roll records slumped 5 percent. Combining more t

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0812922476
• ISBN 13: 9780812922479
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 449
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