Americanaland

Americanaland Where Country & Western Met Rock 'N' Roll - Music in American Life

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Publisher's Synopsis

A musical genre forever outside the lines

With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. John Milward's Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. At base a hybrid of rock and country, Americana is also infused with folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and other types of roots music. Performers like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and Gram Parsons used these ingredients to create influential music that took well-established genres down exciting new roads. The name Americana was coined in the 1990s to describe similarly inclined artists like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Wilco. Today, Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her are among the musicians carrying the genre into the twenty-first century.

Essential and engaging, Americanaland chronicles the evolution and resonance of this ever-changing amalgam of American music. Margie Greve's hand-embroidered color portraits offer a portfolio of the pioneers and contemporary practitioners of Americana.

Book information

ISBN: 9780252043918
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.640973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 756g
Height: 163mm
Width: 243mm
Spine width: 31mm