Author: Petrusich, Amanda.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Faber and Faber, 2008.
ISBN: 086547950X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780865479500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description: xi, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Petrusich, Amanda Travel United States.
Blues (Music) History and criticism.
Folk music United States History and criticism.
Country music History and criticism.
United States Description and travel Anecdotes.
Contents: Ain't it a pity, I'm in New York City! -- Bluesland : Beale Street, Memphis -- Young and loose and full of juice : Sam Phillips, Sun Studios, and the birth of rock and roll -- I'm going to Graceland -- Trail of the hellhounds : Clarksdale's deep Mississippi blues -- Music City, USA : building the Nashville sound -- I'm going where there's no depression : alternative country -- I-64 west : Charlottesville, Lexington, Charleston -- Country rolls : minstrel shows, race, and the rise of radio -- Ain't that a pretty ole mountain? : Applachia, the Carter family, and early country music -- The little old country store from Lebanon, Tennessee : Cracker Barrel's americana -- A matter of song! : John Lomax, Lead Belly, Moses Asch, and Folkways Records -- Making familiar strange : Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music and the birth of Smithsonian-Folkways -- You won't find it so hot if you ain't got the do re mi : Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and the folk revival of the 1960s -- The new, weird, hyphenated America : anti-folk, free-folk, free-folk, indie-folk and the next American revival.
| Library | Shelf Location | Status | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section | Call Number and Collection | Format | |||
| HWLC 8th Floor | Adult | ML3551.P47 2008 | Hardcover | Not Checked Out | 07/24/2011 |
| HWLC 8th Floor | Adult | ML3551.P47 2008 | Trade Paper | Not Checked Out | 02/21/2013 |
| HWLC 8th Floor | Adult Reference | ML3551.P47 2008 coll. Closed Stacks | Hardcover | In-Library Use Only | 09/10/2008 |