Southern music/American music

the long version

"Southern Music/American Music is the first book to investigate the influence of the South on American music and the many popular forms that emerged from it. In this substantially revised edition, Bill C. Malone and David Stricken bring this classic work into the twenty-first century, including material on the hugely successful soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the renewed interest in Southern music, as well as important new artists such as Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo, and the Dixie Chicks, among others."--BOOK JACKET.