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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Harnessing the Echo Chapter 3 "Way Out There": Hillbilly, Blues and Jazz Chapter 4 "Blue Shadows on the Trail": Space and Place in the Imagined West Chapter 5 "And as the Sun Sinks Slowly in the West . . .": Sobbing Guitars, Distant Horizons and the Acoustics of Otherness Chapter 6 "How Near, How Far?": Inner Voices, Weird Space and the Ghostly West Chapter 7 "Off the Wall": Blues Recording at Sun and Chess Studios, 1947-1954 Chapter 8 "Train I Ride . . .": Rock 'n' Roll Echo Chapter 9 "Train Kept a Rollin'": "Popular Music's New Territories Chapter 10 Conclusion: "Race with the Devil" Notes Bibliography Discography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- History.