ISBN: 9780865479609 - sing me back home: love, death, and country music (9 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. The years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of twang. Country music?s giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: ?Folsom Prison Blues,? ?Your Cheatin? Heart,? ?Mama Tried,? ?Stand by Your Man,? and ?Coal Miner?s Daughter.? In Sing Me Back Home, Dana Jennings pushes past the iconic voices and images to get at what classic country music truly means to us today. Yes, country tells the story of rural America in the twentieth century?but the obsessions of classic country were obsessions of America as a whole: drinking and cheating, class and the yearning for home, God and death. Jennings, who grew up in a town that had more cows than people when he was born, knows all of this firsthand. His people lived their lives by country music. His grandmothers were honky-tonk angels, his uncles men of constant sorrow, and his father a romping, stomping hell-raiser who lived for the music of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the other rockabilly hellions. Sing Me Back Home is about a vanished world in which the Depression never ended and the sixties never arrived. Jennings uses classic country songs to explain the lives of his people, and shows us how their lives are also ours?only twangier. Dana Jennings, a native of New Hampshire, is an editor with The New York Times. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. The years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of country music.?Musicians that would become the legends of the genre?all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. Many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: ?Folsom Prison Blues,? ?Your Cheatin? Heart,? ?Mama Tried,? ?Stand by Your Man,? and ?Coal Miner?s Daughter.? In Sing Me Back Home, Dana Jennings pushes past the iconic voices, lyrics?and images to get at what classic country music truly means to?listeners today. Country tells the stories of rural America in the twentieth century?but the obsessions of classic country were obsessions of America as a whole: drinking and cheating, class and the yearning for home, God and death.? He uses country music history to link ideas and issues that are widely?recognized, if not always understood: the myth of classlessness in America; the interpretations of family values; the?meaning of failure and success.Jennings grew up in a town that had more cows than people when he was born and where people lived their lives by country music. His grandmothers were honky-tonk angels, his uncles men of constant sorrow, and his father a romping, stomping hell-raiser who lived for the music of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the other rockabilly hellions. Sing Me Back Home is about a vanished world in which the Depression never ended and the sixties never arrived. Jennings uses classic country songs to explain the lives of his people, and shows how their lives are?like the lives of all Americans. 'Boozing and brawling and country music might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of New Hampshire . . . But after reading Sing Me Back Home, you're likely to agree with Dana Jennings, a native of one of the rougher regions of that state, that the feel-bad songs of Hank Williams and George Jones and Loretta Lynn are the soundtrack for the lives we all live.'?David Kirby, The New York Times 'Boozing and brawling and country music might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of New Hampshire; presidential primary is more like it. But after reading Sing Me Back Home, you?re likely to agree with Dana Jennings, a native of one of the rougher regions of that state, that the feel-bad songs of Hank Williams and George Jones and Loretta Lynn are the soundtrack for the lives we all live . . . An editor at The New York Times, Jennings is not afraid to let his book larnin? show, but only when it?ll further his argument that country music is for everyone, as when he suggests that if Virginia Woolf had grown up with the kind of plumbing he did, her great novel might have been called To the Outhouse.'?David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review'Country music of what Jennings accurately calls the 'golden age of twang' isn't about Dixie, though there's plenty of Dixie in it. It's about country: 'Country music made between about 1950 and 1970 is a secret history of rural, working class Americans in the twentieth century?a secret history in plain sight . . . Country music knows that the dark heart of the American Century beat in oil-field roadhouses in Texas and in dim-lit Detroit bars where country boys in exile gathered after another shift at Ford or GM. Bobby Bare might've pleaded in 'Detroit City' that he wanted to go home. But we all knew he wouldn't, that he couldn't. Country profoundly understands what it's like to be trapped in a culture of alienation: by poverty, by a [lousy] job, by lust, by booze . . . If you truly want to understand the whole United States of America in the twentieth century, you need to understand country music and the working people who lived their lives by it.' That's absolutely true, and Sing Me Back Home makes a powerful argument for it . . . His inquiry into the great underlying themes of country music is astute and deeply informed. He takes country music seriously but never gets pompous or pretentious about it; he appreciates its humor and raunchiness as much as he values its commentary on the life of 'the permanent poor white underclass?both those who had stayed in the country and those who had strayed to the city' . . . Run your eyes over just about any list of Haggard's songs, and you'll see the entire country canon in miniature: 'Misery & Gin,' 'Workin' Man Blues,' 'The Bottle Let Me Down,' 'Ramblin' Fever,' 'Mama Tried,' 'The Roots of My Raising,' 'Sing Me Back Home,' 'Always Wanting.…