Yankee twang : country and western music in New England / Clifford R. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Clifford R., author.

Series:

Music in American life.

Music in American Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country music--New England--History and criticism.

Country music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, 'Yankee Twang' delves into the rich tradition of country and 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.

Contents:

New England country and western music and the myth of Southern authenticity

A history of New England country and western music, 1925-1975

Finding community in the New England country and western event

Home on the grange : the frontier between "American" and "immigrant" worldviews in New England country and western

It beats digging clams : the working life of country and western musicians in the barnstorming era

The New England cowboy : regional resistance to national culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252096617

0252096614

OCLC:

889993133