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Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music. By Bill C. Malone. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2019

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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2019 

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References

1 Cohen, Ronald D., “Bill Malone, Alan Lomax, and the Origins of Country Music,” Journal of American Folklore 127, no. 504 (Spring 2014): 126–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Tyler, Paul, “Hillbilly Music Re-Imagined: Folk and Country Music in the Midwest,” Journal of American Folklore 127, no. 504 (Spring 2014): 159–90CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Huber, Patrick, “The ‘Southerness’ of Country Music,” in The Oxford Handbook of Country Music, ed. Stimeling, Travis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 3253Google Scholar. Huber's historiographic essay, in particular, summarizes the critiques of Malone's thesis and cites additional scholarship that readers may find useful in understanding this debate.