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Richard A. Peterson's book Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity is the most important comprehensive study of country music since Curtis Ellison's Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and it is destined to become one of the major scholarly monographs of the genre. Peterson, a professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, combines original research with an encyclopedic knowledge of the secondary sources and a critical understanding of the country music business to shed new light on how country music is socially and culturally constructed. Not only does Peterson demonstrate historiographical acumen and interpretive imagination, he also writes well. While a clear prose style may have been a prerequisite to academic writing in the past, readers of scholarly books and journals know that current practice is often otherwise.
Approximate Word count = 480
Approximate Pages = 1.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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