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A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-tonk
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 251 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
"In the tradition of Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus and J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate account of social change, country music, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Blue Ridge country king -- A closer walk with thee -- Resistance -- A museum and a mountaintop -- How to build a city -- Toxically pure -- They'll have to carry me out -- Better neighbors -- Blessed to be gray.
Subjects:
Mountain people -- Virginia -- Winchester -- Social conditions.
Social classes -- Virginia -- Winchester.
Winchester (Va.) -- Social conditions.
Winchester (Va.) -- Social life and customs.
Mountain people -- Virginia -- Winchester -- Social conditions.
Social classes -- Virginia -- Winchester.
Winchester (Va.) -- Social conditions.
Winchester (Va.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780544932531 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US VA Lin | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-251).