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Author: Tony Russell (Music Historian, Music Historian)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 25.70cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 18.00cm
Weight: 0.771kg
ISBN: 9780190091187
ISBN 10: 0190091185
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 27 May 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Music scholarship doesn't get any better than this. Quite simply, it's one of the most insightful and fascinating books about country music I've ever read. -- Patrick Huber, coauthor of A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record No one knows more about recorded country music than Tony Russell, and no one writes about it with more elegance and insight. Rural Rhythm is a tour de force DL part history lesson, part treasure hunt, and part epic playlist, jammed with fascinating illustrations. Don't miss it! -- Tom Piazza
...a must for anyone truly interested in the history and thread of old-time. I wish these existed when I was starting out! And look up the referenced recordings. You'll be glad you did. -- Dan Levenson, Banjo Newsletter Music scholarship doesn't get any better than this. Quite simply, it's one of the most insightful and fascinating books about country music I've ever read. -- Patrick Huber, coauthor of A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record No one knows more about recorded country music than Tony Russell, and no one writes about it with more elegance and insight. Rural Rhythm is a tour de force DL part history lesson, part treasure hunt, and part epic playlist, jammed with fascinating illustrations. Don't miss it! -- Tom Piazza
""...a must for anyone truly interested in the history and thread of old-time. I wish these existed when I was starting out! And look up the referenced recordings. You'll be glad you did."" -- Dan Levenson, Banjo Newsletter ""Music scholarship doesn't get any better than this. Quite simply, it's one of the most insightful and fascinating books about country music I've ever read."" -- Patrick Huber, coauthor of A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record ""No one knows more about recorded country music than Tony Russell, and no one writes about it with more elegance and insight. Rural Rhythm is a tour de force DL part history lesson, part treasure hunt, and part epic playlist, jammed with fascinating illustrations. Don't miss it!"" -- Tom Piazza
No one knows more about recorded country music than Tony Russell, and no one writes about it with more elegance and insight. Rural Rhythm is a tour de force - part history lesson, part treasure hunt, and part epic playlist, jammed with fascinating illustrations. Don't miss it! * Tom Piazza * Music scholarship doesn't get any better than this. Quite simply, it's one of the most insightful and fascinating books about country music I've ever read. * Patrick Huber, coauthor of A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record *
Author Information
Tony Russell is a music historian who has written on country music, blues, jazz, and other forms of popular music in a wide variety of publications. He is the author of Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 (OUP 2004) and Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost (OUP 2007), both of which received Best Research in Recorded Country Music Awards from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. He has been twice nominated for a Grammy award for historical liner notes, and holds Lifetime Achievement Awards from the ARSC and Belmont University. Among his other works are the pioneering Black, Whites and Blues (1971), The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings (2006), and the almost twenty-year run of the journal Old Time Music, which he founded and edited.
