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Allen - The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country Music - 9780631191063 - V9780631191063
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The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country Music

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Description for The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country Music Hardback. This guide looks at the key recordings in ten major areas of country music, selecting a main library of 100 discs. In addition, over 300 supplementary albums are listed and described. Crossover artists (who adapted their styles to the pop audience) are also discussed. Num Pages: 496 pages, further reading, index. BIC Classification: AVGL; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 748.
RECORDED COUNTRY MUSIC

The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country Music

This is the definitive guide to selecting the finest recordings in country music. Artists such as Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Cyrus outsell established pop and rock giants in the United States, and they are becoming increasingly popular in Europe. Yet this very popularity means that it is now more difficult to define just what ‘country music’ is.

The Guide looks at the key recordings in ten major areas of the music, selecting a main library of 100 discs — the majority of them currently available CDs, but with a few harder-to-find ... Read more

The Blackwell Guides are short reference books intended to bring specialist help and guidance to those building a library of recordings. Written and edited by the world’s leading authorities, they can be relied upon for balanced and comprehensive information.

Contributors: Bob Allen, Tom Gilmore, Frank and Marty Godbey, Geoffrey Nimes, Pete Loesch, Nick Tosches, Charles Wolfe, Laurence J. Zwisohn.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631191063
SKU
V9780631191063
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Allen
Bob Allen is editor-at-large for Country Music Magazine. His articles on country music have appeared in Esquire, Playboy, The Washington Post, The Saturday Evening Post, The Atlanta Journal, and the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of the 1984 biography George Jones: Saga of an American Singer. He lives on a farm in rural Maryland with his two dogs, one ... Read more

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