TY - GEN T1 - Yankee twang : country and western music in New England T2 - Music in American life. A1 - Murphy, Clifford R. LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2014 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn889993133 AB - Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, 'Yankee Twang' delves into the rich tradition of country and western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast. Clifford R. Murphy draws on a wealth of ethnographic material, interviews, and encounters with recorded and live music to reveal the central role of country and western in the social lives and musical activity of working-class New Englanders. CN - ML3524 .M87 2014 SN - 9780252096617 SN - 0252096614 SN - 0252038673 SN - 9780252038679 KW - Country music : New England : History and criticism. KW - MUSIC : Instruction & Study : Theory. KW - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) KW - Country music KW - New England KW - Music criticism and reviews KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Music criticism and reviews. KW - Comptes rendus de musique. ER -