Why historians no longer believe in the New Deal account of the ‘Dust Bowl’
Stephen Fender, 30 October 1997
Dust-bowl Migrants in the American Imagination
by Charles Shindo.
Kansas, 252 pp., £22.50, January 1997,0 7006 0810 9 Show More
by Charles Shindo.
Kansas, 252 pp., £22.50, January 1997,
In the Country of Country
by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Faber, 365 pp., £12.99, June 1997,0 571 19174 6 Show More
by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Faber, 365 pp., £12.99, June 1997,
“... not to mention (though often forgotten) songs of hope and faith expressed in religious terms. Nicholas Dawidoff’s richly descriptive account of country music, built around well-researched biographies of its practitioners, shows how varied the form was, from the start, in theme, style and instrumentation. There never has been one kind of country ... ”
