The Encyclopedia of Country Music (2nd Edition). The Ultimate Guide to the Music

Second Edition. Compiled by the staff of The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Eight decades of country music at your fingertips, in the most comprehensive encyclopedia on the subject available anywhere

To its millions of fans, country music is America's music, offering a window on the sweet dreams and cruel disappointments of ordinary American lives. Now the renowned Country Music Foundation, custodian of Nashville's legendary Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, has compiled a fascinating and infinitely useful guide to this beloved musical genre--The Encyclopedia of Country Music .
Nearly 1,300 complete and up-to-the-minute alphabetical entries put eight decades of country music at readers' fingertips, from the earliest '20s recordings of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers to the '90s chart-topping albums of LeAnn Rimes and Garth Brooks. A distinguished field of 137 contributors provides an eminently readable and reliable guide to the singers, songwriters, record companies, and industry movers and shakers who have made country music the increasingly popular--and profitable--juggernaut it is today. Hundreds of photographs, some never before published, accompany the text, including 75 color photographs from the CMF Library's record collection, surveying the history of the country music album cover. Twelve appendices provide lists of country's all-time best-selling albums, country music stations nationwide, all the country music awards won over the years, and much more.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword, by Vince Gill
Introduction
Acknowledgments

- The Entries, A-Z

- Essay Articles:
The Look of Country: The Colorful History of Country Music Costuming
The Folk and Popular Roots of Country Music
The Gospel Truth: Christianity and Country Music
Extra! Read All About It!: The Literature of Country Music
Country Music as Music
The Center of Music City: Nashville's Music Row
The Talking Machine: How Record Shaped Country Music
It All Begins with a Song: A Brief History of Country Songwritting
The South and Country Music
From Schoolhouses to Arenas: A History of Country Music Touring
"The Fightin' Side of Me": The Politics of Country Music
Twenty Years of Change: Music's Digital Transformation

- The Sound Seen: Country Album Covert Art

- Appendices