Country music U.S.A.: a fifty-year historypublished for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press, 1968 - Music - 422 pages |
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Contents
The Folk BackgroundBefore the Coming | 3 |
The Early Period of Commercial Hillbilly Music | 33 |
4 Country Music during the DepressionSurvival | 103 |
Copyright | |
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