The Encyclopedia of Country Music : The Ultimate Guide to the Music (1998, Hardcover) read ebook MOBI, DOC, FB2
9780195116717 English 0195116712 From bluegrass to the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Rodgers to Garth Brooks, this is a colourful source of information about country music and its participants. Compiled by the Country Music Foundation, the Encyclopedia of Country Music captures the careers and lives of musicians and industry leaders from the 1920s to the present, in almost 1300 alphabetical entries written by 137 contributors. A colour section includes photographs of rare single and album covers from CMF archives, and over 300 black and white photos illustrate the book. In addition, ten essays are dispersed throughout the text, covering country music as it relates to Southern culture, religion, gospel music, recording technology, songwriting and costuming, among other topics. The book's appendices include such facts as country's all-time best-selling albums, the members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and all the country music awards won over the years; Grammys, CMA Awards and others., To its millions of fans, country music is America's music, offering a window on the sweet dreams and cruel disappointments of ordinary American lives. Now the renowned Country Music Foundation, custodian of Nashville's legendary Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, has compiled afascinating and infinitely useful guide to this beloved musical genre--The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Nearly 1,300 complete and up-to-the-minute alphabetical entries put eight decades of country music at readers' fingertips, from the earliest '20s recordings of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers to the '90s chart-topping albums of LeAnn Rimes and Garth Brooks. A distinguished field of 137contributors provides an eminently readable and reliable guide to the singers, songwriters, record companies, and industry movers and shakers who have made country music the increasingly popular--and profitable--juggernaut it is today. There are entries for influential radio and televisionprograms, and for key country landmarks from Nashville's Music Row to Bakersfield's Blackboard nightclub. Ten longer essays probe the historical, cultural, religious, artistic, and financial forces shaping country music. Hundreds of photographs, some never before published, accompany the text,including 75 color photographs from the CMF Library's record collection, surveying the history of the country music album cover. Twelve appendices provide lists of country's all-time best-selling albums, country music stations nationwide, all the country music awards won over the years, and muchmore. Authoritative, accessible, and unerringly accurate, The Encyclopedia of Country Music will delight fans. It is an essential reference for libraries, radio stations, and the entertainment industry.
9780195116717 English 0195116712 From bluegrass to the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Rodgers to Garth Brooks, this is a colourful source of information about country music and its participants. Compiled by the Country Music Foundation, the Encyclopedia of Country Music captures the careers and lives of musicians and industry leaders from the 1920s to the present, in almost 1300 alphabetical entries written by 137 contributors. A colour section includes photographs of rare single and album covers from CMF archives, and over 300 black and white photos illustrate the book. In addition, ten essays are dispersed throughout the text, covering country music as it relates to Southern culture, religion, gospel music, recording technology, songwriting and costuming, among other topics. The book's appendices include such facts as country's all-time best-selling albums, the members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and all the country music awards won over the years; Grammys, CMA Awards and others., To its millions of fans, country music is America's music, offering a window on the sweet dreams and cruel disappointments of ordinary American lives. Now the renowned Country Music Foundation, custodian of Nashville's legendary Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, has compiled afascinating and infinitely useful guide to this beloved musical genre--The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Nearly 1,300 complete and up-to-the-minute alphabetical entries put eight decades of country music at readers' fingertips, from the earliest '20s recordings of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers to the '90s chart-topping albums of LeAnn Rimes and Garth Brooks. A distinguished field of 137contributors provides an eminently readable and reliable guide to the singers, songwriters, record companies, and industry movers and shakers who have made country music the increasingly popular--and profitable--juggernaut it is today. There are entries for influential radio and televisionprograms, and for key country landmarks from Nashville's Music Row to Bakersfield's Blackboard nightclub. Ten longer essays probe the historical, cultural, religious, artistic, and financial forces shaping country music. Hundreds of photographs, some never before published, accompany the text,including 75 color photographs from the CMF Library's record collection, surveying the history of the country music album cover. Twelve appendices provide lists of country's all-time best-selling albums, country music stations nationwide, all the country music awards won over the years, and muchmore. Authoritative, accessible, and unerringly accurate, The Encyclopedia of Country Music will delight fans. It is an essential reference for libraries, radio stations, and the entertainment industry.