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Country Comes to Town
Jeremy Hill
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Description for Country Comes to Town
Paperback. Series: American Popular Music. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; AVGL; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository of nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres traditional values, Jeremy Hill argues that country music has found such expansive success because its songs and its people have forcefully addressed social and cultural issues as well as geographic change. Hill demonstrates how the genre and its fans developed a flexible idea of ""country,"" beyond their rural roots, and how this flexibility allowed fans and music to ""come to town,"" to move into and within urban ... Read more
Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository of nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres traditional values, Jeremy Hill argues that country music has found such expansive success because its songs and its people have forcefully addressed social and cultural issues as well as geographic change. Hill demonstrates how the genre and its fans developed a flexible idea of ""country,"" beyond their rural roots, and how this flexibility allowed fans and music to ""come to town,"" to move into and within urban ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
American Popular Music
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341723
SKU
V9781625341723
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill, who earned a PhD in American studies from George Washington University, is an independent scholar who lives in Chicago, USA.
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