 | The Big Ballad Jamboree by Donald Davidson
Buy new: $18.70 / Used from: $3.18 Superb novel by master Vanderbilt Agrarian about the rise of commercialized Country Music and the rise of academic tampering with folk cultures.
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 | The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Scottish history/lore becomes Southern history/lore that underlies worthwhile Country music and is neccessary knowledge for the individual.
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 | My Old True Love by Sheila Kay Adams
Buy new: $13.18 / Used from: $0.54 A novel that emphasizes the centrality of the balld traditions of northern England, Scotland, and Ireland to the hill South. That music later became Country.
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 | Child to the Waters by James Everett Kibler
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $2.79 A collection of short fiction that is about the symbiotic ties between Southern history and art, including music. 'Singin Billy, the Song Catcher' is the most important tale in regard to Countrymusic.
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 | The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $18.34 Massive!
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 | Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 by Jeffrey J. Lange
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $14.40 Detailed study of the period treated in Davidson's novel.
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 | The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies) by Ted Olson
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $33.06 The most important single event in the formation of the Country music industry given exhaustive treatment.
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 | A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry by Charles K. Wolfe
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $8.99 The title alone is worth the cost of the book.
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 | Classic Country: Legends of Country Music by Charles K Wolfe
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $4.79 |
 | Country Music, U.S.A. by Bill C. Malone
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $13.98 |
 | Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class (Music in American Life) by Bill C Malone
Buy new: $26.41 / Used from: $11.47 |
 | Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music by Bill C. Malone
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $7.57 |
 | Lost Highway: The True Story of Country Music by Colin Escott
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | BLUEGRASS: A History (Music in American Life) by Neil V. Rosenberg
Buy used from: $6.90 |
 | America's Music: Bluegrass : A History of Bluegrassmusic in the Words of Its Pioneers by Barry R. Willis
Buy used from: $27.35 |
 | Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven (Studies in Popular Culture) by Curtis W. Ellison
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $1.78 |
 | Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music by Mark Zwonitzer
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $5.56 |
 | Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass by Richard Smith
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $4.43 |
 | Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity by Alton Delmore
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $8.89 |
 | Hank Williams: The Biography by Colin Escott
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.07 |
 | Redneck Liberation: Country Music As Theology (Music and the American South Series) by David Fillingim
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $8.82 |
 | Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture by Aaron A.Fox
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $16.49 |
 | The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner
Buy used from: $0.02 |
 | Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn
Buy used from: $0.69 |
 | Tender Mercies
Buy used from: $12.30 OK - so it aint a book, but as an illiterate I should get to pick one movie. Plus, Horton Foote's screenplay is almost as good as 'Trip to Bountiful' and Duvall is perfect.
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