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The ideal handbook for every rock-n-roll pilgrim, Music USA tours the musical heritage of the United States, from Nashville to Seattle, and shrines of American sound in between. Coverage includes full background on the development of local music styles together with practical details on clubs and venues, festivals, radio stations and record stores.
Music USA includes jazz, rock, pop, country, folk, funk, techno, house, and world beat in more than twenty chapters arranged geographically. Chapters focus on: New York, Philadelphia, Appalachia, Chapel Hill (NC), Nashville, Athens (GA), Miami, Muscle Shoals (AL), Memphis, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, The Southwest, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Hawaii. Each chapter covers the musical heritage of the cities and regions and the artists who put them on the musical map.
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Unterberger covered the greatest cult rock acts of all time for Unknown Legends of Rock (Miller Freeman, 1998) and is Senior Editor of the All Music guides. For Rough Guides, he is the author of the The Mini Rough Guide to Seattle, and contributor to The Rough Guide to Rock and The Rough Guide to San Francisco.
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Immense, richly diverse, flashy, polyethnic, and engaged in a never-ending race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy-that's your description of New York in a nutshell, and also your capsule guide to New York music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
swamp pop, slack key guitarists, music listings, conjunto music, acid tracks, underground acts, acoustic blues, folk circuit, touring acts, blues museum, falsetto vocals, outlaw movement, garage rock, pop audience, soul hits, jazz talent, kick out the jams, booking policy, rockabilly singers, pop market, contemporary soul, pop hooks, recording center, underground rock, folk standards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Various Artists, Hall of Fame, Elvis Presley, Muscle Shoals, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Chapel Hill, Beach Boys, United States, Jimi Hendrix, Native American, World War, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Springfield, West Coast, Mardi Gras, Beale Street, Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, British Invasion New!
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Immense, richly diverse, flashy, polyethnic, and engaged in a never-ending race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy-that's your description of New York in a nutshell, and also your capsule guide to New York music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
swamp pop, slack key guitarists, music listings, conjunto music, acid tracks, underground acts, acoustic blues, folk circuit, touring acts, blues museum, falsetto vocals, outlaw movement, garage rock, pop audience, soul hits, jazz talent, kick out the jams, booking policy, rockabilly singers, pop market, contemporary soul, pop hooks, recording center, underground rock, folk standards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Various Artists, Hall of Fame, Elvis Presley, Muscle Shoals, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Chapel Hill, Beach Boys, United States, Jimi Hendrix, Native American, World War, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Springfield, West Coast, Mardi Gras, Beale Street, Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, British Invasion New!
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- Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick on page 419, page 421, and page 422
- Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn on page 107, page 109, and page 125
- Memphis Elvis-Style by Cindy Hazen on page 217, and page 240
- This Land Is Your Land (Collection of Woody Guthrie Songs) by Woody Guthrie on page 22, and page 326
- Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor (Black Music and Expressive Culture) by Jerry Butler on page 71, and page 260
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