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Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard Peterson 9780226662855
Booksplease Price: £27.92This work traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Richard... -
Exploding Chippewas: Poems by Mark Turcotte 9780810151239
Booksplease Price: £20.19A collection of poems exploring a continuing struggle with identity; Everything this poet touches upon is volatile - the poet himself, the people and world around him, ideas and mythologies, the... -
Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture by Barbara Ching 9780195169423
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.68This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that... -
Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River by Tracey E. W. Laird 9780190469610
RRP: £35.49Booksplease Price: £26.35On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as... -
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly 9781399802574
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met... -
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics: The official, fully illustrated celebration of the Man in Black Mark Stielper 9781399618786
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.00The life of the Man in Black is revealed through his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in this beautifully illustrated official hardback edition, fully authorised by the Cash estate and... -
Profiles of Popular Culture: A Reader by Ray Browne 9780879728694
Booksplease Price: £24.63From Hank Williams to hip hop, Aunt Jemima to the Energizer Bunny, scrapbooking to NASCAR racing, this volume - edited by a pioneer in the field - invites readers to reflect on a sampling of modern... -
Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots of Music along the Red River by Tracey E. W. Laird 9780195167511
Booksplease Price: £64.76On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as hillbilly... -
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly 9781399802611
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met... -
Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Letterpress Shop by Jim Sherraden 9780811828567
Booksplease Price: £31.76Hatch Show Print is the first chronicle of this letterpress poster shop that has become an American institution. Copious images of the fabulous posters that this, the oldest letterpress in the United... -
Haunted Nashville by Frankie Harris 9780764331206
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Unravel the mysteries surrounding some of Music City's most recognizable landmarks. Who has been ringing the bells at St. Mary's Catholic Church in the dead of night? Is Andrew Jackson's spirit still... -
The First Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born Before 1940 by David Dicaire 9780786430215
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59This volume focuses on fifty of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the folk music of early America through the 1970s. Divided into five distinct... -
The Makeup of RuPaul's Drag Race: Essays on the Queen of Reality Shows by Jim Daems 9780786495078
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.73Start your engines - for the fun, the controversy, and the life lessons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its spinoff RuPaul's DragU. This collection of original essays by international scholars critically... -
Country & Western Dance by Ralph G. Giordano 9780313365546
Booksplease Price: £36.83A fun, fact-filled, and thoroughly researched journey of country and western dancing from the roots of Western Swing to Hank Williams, the Urban Cowboy two-step of John Travolta, and the nationwide... -
The Best Murders Are British: Essays on the International Appeal of English Crime Dramas by Jim Daems 9781476679396
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19A staple of television since the early years of the BBC, British crime drama first crossed the Atlantic on public broadcasting stations and specialty cable channels, and later through streaming... -
If You've Got a Dream, I've Got a Plan by Kelley Lovelace 9781401600242
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29You may be the next Hank Williams, Mozart, and Bob Dylan all rolled up into one. But if you don't get the right people to hear the songs you've written, then the best you can hope for is to be an... -
Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South by Patrick Huber 9781469621913
Booksplease Price: £39.09Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the... -
The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis Holt 9781250821096
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby's life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby's daughter Rylee is at a crossroads-her best friend Twig has started pushing her away just as Joe, a new kid... -
Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of 'Bluegrass' by Richard D. Smith 9780316803816
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.70Drawing on the traditional "hillbilly" music of his Kentucky childhood, Bill Monroe created the "high lonesome sound" of bluegrass; his accomplished mandolin-playing and haunting high-range voice,... -
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy 9781574412857
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.11This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas'-and America's-greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van... -
American Silence by Zeese Papanikolas 9780803237568
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.87In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their... -
The Lost Boy's Gift by Kimberly Willis Holt
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.60Here is a masterful novel from National Book Award winner Kimberly Willis Holt. The story opens as ten-year-old Daniel moves across the country in the wake of his parents' divorce. He's leaving... -
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan 9781398519411
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.34The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the... -
Bakersfield Guitars: The Illustrated History by Willie Moseley
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.09From out of the dust of California's San Joaquin Valley . . . The Ventures only endorsed Mosrite guitars for about five years. But the legendary instrumental band's use of the upstart guitar line in... -
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel by Kimberly Willis Holt
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.96Twelve-year-old Stevie's world changes drastically when her parents are tragically killed and she is forced to live with her estranged grandfather at his run-down motel. After failed attempts to... -
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul Mark Ribowsky 9781631491931
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) was the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Berry Gordy built the first black-owned music empire at Motown but Redding was... -
Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 by Jeffrey J. Lange 9780820326238
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.01Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in the... -
Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 by Jeffrey J. Lange 9780820352565
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £92.35Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in the... -
Chase's Calendar of Events 2023: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months by Editors of Chase's 9781636710686
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £13.68Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!The world's date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is... -
Booze & Vinyl Country: 100+ Spirited Music-and-Drink Pairings by André Darlington 9798894141152
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Raise a glass to more than 60 of country music's biggest hit albums with this spirited collection of music and mood-setting drink pairings complete with recipes-a delightful companion to the... -
Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture by Thomas Alan Holmes 9780739169674
Booksplease Price: £51.70An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America's most popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their... -
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul Mark Ribowsky 9780871408730
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) was the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Berry Gordy built the first black-owned music empire at Motown but Redding was... -
Hip Hops: Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here... -
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music by Paul Hemphill 9780820348575
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £17.87While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were... -
So You Want to Sing Country: A Guide for Performers by Kelly K. Garner 9781442246409
Booksplease Price: £43.76Country music, an original American artform, has been around since before the recording industry began and long before a singer even had the opportunity to sing into a microphone. From the early... -
The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East by Mitchell Bard 9780061725975
Booksplease Price: £11.78For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up... -
Hell-Bent For Music: The Life of Pee Wee King by Wade Hall
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.98Pee Wee King's birth on February 18, 1914, into a Milwaukee working-class Polish family named Kuczynski was hardly an indicator that he would grow up to become a pioneer and superstar of country and... -
I'd Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music by Peter La Chapelle
Booksplease Price: £20.12Celebrity has long been tied to political aspirations in American history. Decades before the United States had a president from the realm of reality TV or the movies, we had scores of politicians... -
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century by Barry Mazor 9780199891863
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £20.70In the nearly eight decades since his death at age thirty-five, singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers has been an inspiration for numerous top performers--from Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Hank Williams... -
Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture by Douglas R. Anderson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophy-the Greek love of wisdom-is alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains...