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The real ‘Big Bang’ of country music: How Vernon Dalhart’s 1924 breakthrough recordings launched a genre

By Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University

A musicologist explains how an oft-forgotten opera, pop and jazz singer from New York City launched the country music industry a century ago.

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