Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : how America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century / Barry Mazor.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Meeting Jimmie Rodgers halfway
- The man who walked into Southern show business
- Close to the ground : the singing brakeman
- America's Blue Yodeler no. 1 : this white guy sings blues, too
- America's Blue Yodeler no. 2 : instigator of blue yodelmania
- International multimedia star
- Doomed singer-songwriter with guitar
- The late, great Jimmie Rodgers
- South by Southwest : an easterner in a cowboy hat
- Back East : the hillbilly echo, 1933-1947
- Some sort of folksinger?
- The father of country music
- Rough and rowdy ways : to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Sentiments in context : the return of vaudeville Jimmie
- High-powered mamas : women and the music of Jimmie Rodgers
- Down the old road to home.