| Description |
1 online resource (441 pages) |
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Caravan Book |
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Caravan Book
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| Contents |
Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 King of the Mountaineer Musicians; 2 Rough and Rowdy Ways; 3 Cain't Make a Living at a Cotton Mill; 4 A Blessing to People; Epilogue; Appendix A. Directory of Southern Textile Workers Who Made Hillbilly Recordings, 19231942; Appendix B. Discography of Southern Textile Workers' Commercial Recordings, 19231942, Reissued on CD; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of America's confrontation with modernity. Hutner explains t |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Country music -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History and criticism
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Country music -- Southern States -- History and criticism
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Country musicians -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region)
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Textile workers -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region)
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Country music.
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Country musicians.
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Textile workers.
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Southern States.
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United States -- Piedmont Region.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807887509 |
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0807887501 |
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