{"product_id":"sing-me-back-home-southern-roots-and-country-musicvolume-1-9780806155869","title":"Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Musicvolume 1","description":"\u003cbr\u003e For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. \u003ci\u003eSing Me Back Home\u003c\/i\u003e distills a lifetime of thinking about country and southern roots music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Malone offers the heartfelt story of his own working-class upbringing in rural East Texas, recounting how in 1939 his family's first radio, a battery-powered Philco, introduced him to hillbilly music and how, years later, he went on to become a scholar in the field before the field formally existed. Drawing on a hundred years of southern roots music history, Malone assesses the contributions of artists such as William S. Hays, Albert Brumley, Joe Thompson, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Gimble, and Elvis Presley. He also explores the intricate relationships between black and white music styles, gospel and secular traditions, and pop, folk, and country music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Author of many books, Malone is best known for his pioneering volume \u003ci\u003eCounty Music, U.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1968. It ranks as the first comprehensive history of American country music and remains a standard reference. This compilation of Malone's shorter--and more personal--essays is the perfect complement to his earlier writing and a compelling introduction to the life's work of America's most respected country music historian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalone, Bill C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBill C. Malone \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University. He is the author of numerous books on country music history. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1968 as \u003ci\u003eCountry Music, U.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e and has subsequently seen print in three revised editions. Malone received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music in 2008. He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly country music radio show.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328529436946,"sku":"9780806155869","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd53f0d5-66ed-4002-a62c-9bbbd533374a.jpg?v=1727743526","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sing-me-back-home-southern-roots-and-country-musicvolume-1-9780806155869","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}