Country music : a history / Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: PRHA 7381 | Penguin Random House AudioPublisher: New York, New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2019]Copyright date: ℗2019Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 14 audio discs (18 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9780525588849
- 0525588841
- Country music (Television program : 2019)
- Based on the film series by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan.
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019
This deeply researched and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today.
But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.
Title from container.
Read by Brian Corrigan and the authors.
Compact discs.
Based on the film series by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan.
A companion to the 2019 PBS mini-series honoring America's most popular music and the artists who shaped twentieth-century history and culture explores the music's roots, growth, styles, and commercial success.
Based on the film series by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan.