Country Music: Learn More About It
Library of Congress Web Resources:
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection from the American Folklife Center (American Memory)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html
Birthplace of Country Music: The Bristol Music Story (Local Legacies)
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/VA/va-9_h_boucher2.html
Birthplace of Country Music (America's Library)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/tn/bristol_1/
Grand Ole Opry (Local Legacies)
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/TN/tn_s_frist1.html
Ole Time Fiddler’s and Bluegrass Festival (America's Library)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/nc/banjo_1/
Bluegrass Odyssey (Lecture given by Neil Rosenberg and Carl Fleischhauer)
http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/bluegrass/
Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Monroe County (Local Legacies)
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/IN/in-09_h_hill4.html
Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Local Legacies)
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/CO/co_s_allard1.html
Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/rec.html
Related Web Sites:
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/
Roughstock’s History of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/
All Music Guide (Click on “country” or “bluegrass”)
http://www.allmusic.com/
Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
http://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, East Tennessee State University
http://cass.etsu.edu/
The Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/
East Tennessee State University Bluegrass and Country Music Program
http://cass.etsu.edu/bluegrass/
Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/sinv.html
Selected Bibliography:
Numerous books are available on country and bluegrass music and its performers. The following is only a small selection of what is available at the Library of Congress and other libraries nationwide.
Bogdanov, Vladimir, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and Chris Woodstra, eds. All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003. ML156.4.C7 A45 2003
Brown, Charles T. Music U.S.A.: America's Country and Western Tradition
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ML3524.B76 1986
Bufwack, Mary A., and Robert K. Oermann, Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press, Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. ML3524.B83 2003
Carr, Patrick, ed. The Illustrated History of Country Music. Garden City, N.Y.: Random House/Times Books, 1995. ML3524.I45 1995
Country Music Magazine. The Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia. New York: Times Books/Random House, 1994. ML102.C7 C6 1994
Dellar, Fred, and Alan Lackett. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Harmony Books, 1977. ML102.C7 D4
Ellison, Curtis W. Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. ML3524.E4 1995
Fleischhauer, Carl and Neil V. Rosenberg. Bluegrass Odyssey : A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001. ML3520 .F6 2001
Green, Douglas B. Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1976. ML3561.C69 G73
Hill, Fred. Grass Roots: An Illustrated History of Bluegrass and Mountain Music. Rutland, Vt.: Academy Books, 1980. ML3520.H54
Kingsbury, Paul, ed. The Country Reader: Twenty-five Years of the "Journal of Country Music." Nashville: The Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. ML3524.C78 1996
Kingsbury, Paul, Alan Axelrod, and Susan Costello, eds. Country: The Music and the Musicians: From the Beginnings to the '90s. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994. ML3524.C66 1994
Kochman, Marilyn. The Big Book of Bluegrass. New York: W. Morrow, 1984. ML3520.B53 1984
Malone, Bill C. Country Music U.S.A. 2nd rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. ML3524.M34 2002
Malone, Bill C. Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. ML3551.M26 1993
McCardell, Charles, ed. Classic Country: The Golden Age of Country Music: The '20s through the '70s. Irvington, N.Y.: Hydra Publishing, 2003. ML400.C492 2003
Millard, Bob. Country Music: Seventy-five Years of America's Favorite Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1999. ML3524.M53 1999
Peterson, Richard A. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ML3524.P48 1997
Porterfield, Nolan, ed. Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the "JEMF Quarterly." Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004. ML3524.E9 2004
Price, Steven D. Old as the Hills: The Story of Bluegrass Music. New York: Viking Press, 1975. ML3561.B62 P7
Richards, Tad, and Melvin B. Shestack. The New Country Music Encyclopedia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. ML102.C7 R5 1993
Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. ML3520.R67 1985
Stambler, Irwin, and Grelun Landon. Country Music: The Encyclopedia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. ML102.C7 S7 1997
Stambler, Irwin, and Grelun Landon. The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983. ML102.F66 S7 1983
Tichi, Cecelia. High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ML3524.T5 1994
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