Country The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music,Countryreveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated,Countrystands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

Nick Tosches is the author of Hellfire, Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, Power on Earth, Cut Numbers, Dino, and Trinities.

Preface to the Da Capo Edition	p. vi
Preface to the Revised Edition	p. xi
Thela in the New World	p. 1
Orpheus, Gypsies, and Redneck Rock 'n' Roll	p. 4
The Girl Singer	p. 22
Loud Covenants	p. 25
Emmett Miller, 1	p. 102
Yodeling Cowboys and Such	p. 109
Emmett Miller, 2	p. 118
Stained Panties and Coarse Metaphors	p. 120
West Vinginia Hills Are in the Bronx, Says Barn Barnum	p. 157
You're Going To Watch Me Kill Her	p. 158
Cowboys and Niggers	p. 162
Yeah, But They Break If You Sit On Them	p. 218
Northeast Mississippi, 1953	p. 237
Emmett Miller, 3	p. 239
Index	p. 269
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