Inhalt
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Note on Sources
- 1. Lindon K. Starr, "Georgia's Unwritten Airs Played by Old 'Fiddler's' for Atlanta Prizes: Untutored Players from Hillsides and Marshes Perform Traditional Southern Melodies on Wire-Stringed Violins-Society Folk and Workers in Audiences 'Shuffle Feet' to Contagious Strains-'Bald Mountain Caruso' and Treble-singing Dog at Unique Convention" (1914)
- 2. Cecil B. Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917)
- 3. John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) (excerpt)
- 4."What the Popularity of Hill-Billy Songs Means in Retail Profit Sensibilities: The Widespread Vogue of the Funereal Type of Songs Is Attested by Publishers and Record Manufacturers-Is It of Significance as Indication of Public Taste?" (1925)
- 5."Mountain Songs Recorded Here by Victor Co.: Notable Performers of This Section at Work at Station in This City" (1927)
- 6. Ralph Peer, "Discovery of the 1st Hillbilly Great" (1953)
- 7. Bill Williams, excerpt "Interview with Mother Maybelle Carter" (1968/1971)
- 8. Harold A. Safford, "Bradley Kincaid" (1928)
- 9. Paul Hobson, "Radio's Hillbilly King, Carson Robison, who is, with his Pioneers, a regular attraction for Oxydol every Sunday from Luxembourg, Lyons and Normandy, tells us in this interview how he writes his world-famous songs" (1938)
- 10. John Wright, "J.E. Mainer" (1993)
- 11. Virginia Seeds, "Back Stage Ramble: Cowboys and Cow Belles Enjoy the Barn Dance" (1936)
- 12. "No Hill Billies in Radio: Ballads Are Still Written, Says John Lair" (1935)
- 13. Alva Johnston, "Tenor on Horseback" (1939)
- 14. George D. Hay, excerpt from A Story of the Grand Old Opry (1945)
- 15. Janis Stout, "The Light Crust Doughboys Were on the Air: A Memoir" (1996)
- 16."Okies Reverse Order of Steinbeck's Tale" (1941)
- 17. Maurice Zolotow, "Hillbilly Boom" (1944)
- 18. Nicholas Dawidoff, "Earl Scruggs: Three Fast Fingers" (excerpt) (1997)
- 19. Rufus Jarman, "Country Music Goes to Town" (1953)
- 20. Johnny Cash on recording at Sun with Sam Phillips, Cash: The Autobiography (excerpt) (1997)
- 21. Charlie Louvin, "Elvis" (2012)
- 22. Murray Nash, "Miss Country Music and Her Family" (1955)
- 23. Linda Lamendola, "Steve Sholes-Star Maker" (1956)
- 24. Ben A. Green, "Chet Makes Guitar Talk with Rhythm and Melody" (1957)
- 25. "Coast Country Biz Booms" (1957)
- 26. Alan Lomax, "Bluegrass Background: Folk Music with Overdrive" (1959)
- 27. Tom T. Hall, The Storyteller's Nashville on songwriting and song plugging (1979)
- 28. "The Story of the Country Music Association" (1968)
- 29. "Ask Trina" (1968)
- 30. John Grissim, Jr., "California White Man's Shit Kickin' Blues" (1969)
- 31. Lee Arnold, "A DJ Tells Why-There's Country Music in the City Air" (1975)
- 32. Michael Bane, The Outlaws: Revolution in Country Music (1978)
- 33. Rex Rutkoski,"The Pill: Should It Be Banned from Airplay?" (1975)
- 34. George F. Will, "Of Pride and Country Music" (1975)
- 35. Aaron Latham, "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit" (1978)
- 36. Tom Anthony, "Kenny Rogers: Drawing Full Houses" (1981)
- 37. Alanna Nash, "Emmylou Harris" (1988)
- 38. Holly G. Miller, "Randy Travis: Nice Guy Finishes First" (1988)
- 39. Bruce Feiler, Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville (1998)
- 40. Debbie Holley, "Country Dancing Sparks Club Growth: New Nightclubs, Remixes Target Trend" (1992)
- 41. Eric Boehlert, "Classic Country Stations Fill Niche: Claim Fans of Currents, Standards Mix" (1993)
- 42. Peter Cronin, "Nashville's Studio Boom Alters Musical Landscape" (1993)
- 43. Kyle Ryan, "Any Kind of Music But Country: A Decade of Indie Country, Punk Rock, and the Struggle for Country's Soul" (2005)
- 44. Rich Kienzle, Review of BR5-49 (1996)
- 45. Deborah Evans Price, "Has There Been 'Murder on Music Row'? Key Players Speak Out" and "Is There 'Murder on Music Row'? Debate Continues" (2000)
- 46. Scott Galupo, "The Critical Rockist and Gretchen" (2005)
- 47. Craig Havighurst, "Scenes from a Rose Garden: Martina McBride Found Career and Family Bliss by Carefully Balancing the Timeless and the Timely (2006)
- 48. Jill Sobule, "Searching for the Republican Artist" (2008)
- 49. Vanessa Grigoriadis, "The Very Pink, Very Perfect Life of Taylor Swift" (2009)
- 50. Chet Flippo, "Why the Term 'Country Music' May Disappear: Marketers of the Future May Dissolve Music Genre Labels" (2010)
- 51. Skip Hollandsworth, "The Girl Who Played with Firearms" (2011)
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