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(More customer reviews)The Story of Jimmie Rodgers is for any music collection strong in early country music pioneers. It offers an examination of the songs of Jimmie Rodgers, which have been played and appreciated by dozens of musicians over a period of nearly ninety years. Culture and history comes to life in a study offering a new perspective on Rodgers and how his music influenced the course and choices of country music as a genre, making this an indispensable reference for any serious music history library.
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The songs of country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers have been appropriatedby dozens of musicians and radically transformed since he first recorded them nearly90 years ago. His songs have often resurfaced at critical moments when country musichas been forced to confront issues of style, gender, race, and tradition. In thiscultural and historical study, Jocelyn R. Neal discusses three of Rodgers' mostinfluential songs -- "Muleskinner Blues," "In the Jailhouse Now," and "T for Texas."She offers a radically new perspective on the role of Rodgers and his music in themaking of country music, and on the ways in which individual songs take on specialsignificance in American cultural life. (2010)
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