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Table of Contents:
- The folk background before commercialism
- The early period of commercial hillbilly music
- The first country singing star : Jimmie Rodgers
- Country music during the depression
- The cowboy image and the growth of western music
- The war years : the national expansion of country music
- The boom period : the emergence of a big business, 1946-1953
- The development of country-pop music and the Nashville sound
- The reinvigoration of modern country music, 1960-1972
- Bluegrass
- Country music, 1972-1984
- Tradition and change : country music, 1985-2002.