{"product_id":"meeting-jimmie-rodgers-how-americas-original-roots-music-hero-changed-the-pop-sounds-of-a-century-9780199891863","title":"Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century","description":"In \u003cem\u003eMeeting Jimmie Rodgers\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003eYodel 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\u003cbr\u003ethemes--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\u003cbr\u003eand 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Mazor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199891863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Mazor\u003c\/strong\u003e has been writing about American music since the 1970s. A long-time senior editor for the roots and pop music magazine \u003cem\u003eNo Depression\u003c\/em\u003e, he writes frequently on country and pop music for \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40302935834739,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a2024b25-324b-414f-b281-34c3e4053b72.jpg?v=1658842124","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/meeting-jimmie-rodgers-how-americas-original-roots-music-hero-changed-the-pop-sounds-of-a-century-9780199891863","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}