Americanaland

Where Country & Western Met Rock 'n' Roll

Americanaland
John Milward
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 304pg
3 Aug 2021 US
9780252043918
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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.

Accordian in the Americas, The: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco and More! - (not currently available)
Americanaland: Where Country and Western Met Rock 'n' Roll
Banjo Roots and Branches - (not currently available)
Bill Clifton: America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World - (not currently available)
Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man
Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era - (not currently available)
Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir - (not currently available)
Blues Before Sunrise 2: Interviews from the Chicago Scene
Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago
Charles Ives's Concord: Essays after a Sonata
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America - (not currently available)
Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures
Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music - (not currently available)
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy - (not currently available)
Listening to Bob Dylan
Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Music in American Life: Cole Porter Companion - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic
Music in American Life: Elocutionists, The: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Making the March King: John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893 - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic
Music in American Life: Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Music in American Life: Pioneers of the Blues Revival - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Rethinking American Music - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Southern Soul-Blues - (not currently available)
Music in American Life: Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass
Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic
Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983
Queer Country
Sounds of Place, The: Music and the American Cultural Landscape
Tania Leon's Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life
Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins - (not currently available)
Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

"With fresh insight and a great sprinkling of anecdotal details, this is a fabulous addition to the canon, enhanced by portraits of the musicians from illustrator Greve. It would be impossible for Milward to pack any more information into this well-researched and comprehensive book. Recommended to anyone and everyone interested in the history of American music. " --Library Journal (starred review) "With fresh insight and a great sprinkling of anecdotal details, this is a fabulous addition to the canon, enhanced by portraits of the musicians from illustrator Greve. It would be impossible for Milward to pack any more information into this well-researched and comprehensive book. Recommended to anyone and everyone interested in the history of American music. " --Library Journal (starred review) "Concise, lively, and informative, with many colorful anecdotes adding intriguing detail. Milward' s deep knowledge of music history and expertise on roots-music genres make Americanaland an essential addition to the music book canon. "--Holly George-Warren, author of Janis: Her Life and Music "There' s a common thread that runs through the great patchwork quilt that' s come to be known as Americana Music. John Milward has artfully followed every stitch of that thread and revealed the story behind every patch. In doing so he' s made huge strides in giving this rich genre the legitimacy it deserves. "--Larry Campbell "Encyclopedic. Kaleidoscopic. John Millward [offers an] account of a century of American music culminating in what we now call Americana. Countless stories of those who have brought this music that bubbles up from a bottomless well sunk deep in American soil. "--Jim Rooney
John Milward has written about popular music for more than forty years; he was the chief pop music critic for the Chicago Daily News and USA Today and has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and No Depression. He is the author of Crossroads: How the Blues Shaped Rock ' n' Roll (and Rock Saved the Blues). Margie Greve' s work has appeared in Rolling Stone and the New Yorker and has been shown in galleries in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780252043918
Published: 3 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 304

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