{"product_id":"singing-cowboys-and-musical-mountaineers-9780820325514","title":"Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers","description":"In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at \"hillbilly\" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBILL C. MALONE, as a performer and a scholar, has been immersed in country music for most of his life. Now retired from Tulane University, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly radio show, \"Back to the Country.\" He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCountry Music, U.S.A., Don't Get above Your Raisin'\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845598515474,"sku":"9780820325514","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82bb982c-5746-4cb0-a0dd-b2139dcf89d4.jpg?v=1737354236","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/singing-cowboys-and-musical-mountaineers-9780820325514","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}