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PublisherVanderbilt University Press

ISBN-100826514243

ISBN-139780826514240

eBay Product ID (ePID)2329102

Product Key Features

Book TitleHeartaches by the Number : Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGenres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic

AuthorDavid Cantwell, Bill Friskics-Warren

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-013662

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Any country music fan who has ever had an achy, breaky heart should add this volume to his or her library." -- True West Magazine, Any country music fan who has ever had an achy, breaky heart should add this volume to his or her library. --True West Magazine

Dewey Decimal781.642/09

SynopsisThis book constitutes a popular, and decidedly populist, history of country music. Its interwoven essays showcase the music's myriad roots and influences: stringband stomps and western swing, hillbilly boogie and honky-tonk, the Nashville Sound and the neo-traditionalist movement, plus everything from blues and bluegrass to rockabilly and country-rock, even soul. What's more, by focusing on the records that defined the music to generations of fans, as well as on the singers, songwriters, producers, and pickers who made them, the book offers a fresh, inclusive, at times provocative way of listening to country music--one that champions innovation and tradition even as it challenges many of the genre's prevailing assumptions. Heartaches by the Number takes the reader all the way from Patsy Montana's "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" and Hank Williams's "I Saw the Light" to Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance." It includes classics like Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Gene Autry's "Back in the Saddle Again," Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," George Jones's "He Stopped Loving Her Today," and Garth Brooks's "The Dance," plus surprises from the likes of Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and Ray Charles, among others. Part encyclopedia, part history, part collection of record reviews, yet not quite any of these things, Heartaches by the Number isinstead an argument for a sensibility, a way of hearing. It's comprised of critical essays that each can stand alone, but that, when read in sequence, comment upon each other and tell a larger story--one that challenges and redefines what country music is and what it can mean. Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press, This volume constitutes a populist history of country music. Its interwoven essays showcase the music's myriad roots and influences. It focuses on the records that defined the music to generations of fans, as well as the singers, songwriters, producers and pickers who made them.

LC Classification NumberML3524.C326 2002