The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music (Revised edition) Available to Purchase

Unusually for Reference Reviews this review examines a revised reprint of a title first published in 1998. The 1990s saw a resurgence of interest in country music, largely as a result of the popular success of singers such as Garth Brooks and Shania Twain. A number of reference works relating to the genre were published, including the title under review here. A handful of encyclopedias have appeared since then which provide more up‐to‐date material than Kingsbury's Encyclopedia: The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music (Larkin, 1998), Country Music: The Encyclopedia (Stambler and Landon, 2000) and Country Music:...