He wants to use biography and history to explain how and why country music meant so much to its audiences during the period.
This pervading sense of internal conflict16 is what lies at the heart of a 'theology of country music'.
The 1993 recording encodes place through the sound of country music.
Such a conflict has been an inherent part of the country music ethos from its beginning.
But the majority of blues and country music of the 1920s and early 1930s was left unprotected.
This liminality is what lies at the heart of country music.
The past decade has seen a spate of books about country music.
When country music struggles with generic change for commercial purposes, it foregrounds, for fans, listeners and scholars, why those struggles matter.
