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Workin' Man Blues : Country Music in California.

California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haslam, Gerald W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkerley : University of California Press, 1999.
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Sumario:California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys the Golden State's contributions to what is today the most popular music in America. At the same time he illuminates the lives of the white, working-class men and women who migrated to California from the Dust Bowl, the Hoovervilles, and all the other locales where they had been turned out, shut down.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (393 pages)
ISBN:9780585370439
0585370435