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Americanaland : where Country & Western met Rock 'n' Roll / John Milward ; portraits by Margie Greve.

Milward, John, (author.). Greve, Margie, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. John Milward's Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. At base a hybrid of rock and country, Americana is also infused with folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and other types of roots music. Performers like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, and Gram Parsons used these ingredients to create influential music that took well-established genres down exciting new roads. The name Americana was coined in the 1990s to describe similarly inclined artists like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Wilco; today, Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her are among the musicians carrying the genre into the twenty-first century. Essential and engaging, Americanaland chronicles the evolution and resonance of this ever-changing amalgam of American music. Margie Greve's hand-embroidered color portraits offer a portfolio of some of the pioneers and contemporary practitioners of Americana." -- Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9780252043918
ISBN: 025204391X
Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Will you miss me when I'm gone? -- The lost highway -- Sunrise -- Blowin' in the wind -- Turn! Turn! Turn! -- White line fever -- Something in the air -- Sweetheart of the rodeo -- American tune -- Troubadours -- Grievous angels -- The red-headed icon -- Punks, God, and urbane cowboys -- Hard-core troubadours -- The "birth" of Americana -- Across the Great Divide -- Yesterday and today -- Last call.