Jimmie Rodgers:Life & Time: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Porterfield, Nolan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025206268X ISBN 13: 9780252062681

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1992

Synopsis

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933), the first performer elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, was a folk hero in his own lifetime and has been idolized by fans and emulated by performers ever since. His life story has been particularly susceptible to romanticizing, marked as it was by humble origins, sudden success and fame, and an early death from tuberculosis.

Nolan Porterfield's biography banishes the rumors and myths that have long shrouded the Blue Yodeler's life story. Unlike previous writings about Rodgers, Porterfield's book derives from extensive and detailed research into original sources: private letters, personal interviews, court records, and newspaper accounts. Jimmie Rodgers significantly expands and alters our knowledge of the entertainer's life and career, explaining the nature of his role in American culture of the Depression era and providing insightful background on the milieu in which he worked. Porterfield writes a preface for this edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Nolan Porterfield's other books include Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax and an award-winning novel, A Way of Knowing. A native of Texas, he now lives near Bowling Green, Kentucky.

From the Inside Flap:

The definitive biography of the "Father of Country Music."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 025206268X
• ISBN 13: 9780252062681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512