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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

By Barry Mazor

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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

By Barry Mazor

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In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of "The Singing Brakeman" from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown that came with such hits as "Blue Yodel" and "In the Jailhouse Now." As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he performed, whether tough or sentimental, comic or sad. His wistful singing, falsetto yodels, bold flat-picking guitar style, and sometimes censorable themes--sex, crime, and other edgy topics--set him apart from most of his contemporaries. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas--working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man--that connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed him. In reconstructing this far-flung legacy, Mazor enables readers to meet Rodgers and his music anew-not as an historical figure, but as a vibrant, immediate force.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
386
Release Date:
2012-03-13
Publication Date:
2012-03-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199891869
ISBN13:
9780199891863
Weight:
656 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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