Pecknold / McGovern / Radano The Selling Sound

The Rise of the Country Music Industry
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9030-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American Music

Industry history of the country music business.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pecknold, Diane

McGovern, Charles

Radano, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Commercialism as a Cultural Text 1

1. Commercialism and the Cultural Value of Country Music, 1920-1947 13

2. Country Music Becomes Mass Culture, 1940-1958 53

3. Country Audiences and the Politics of Mass Culture, 1947-1960 95

4. Masses to Classes: The Country Music Association and the Development of Country Format Radio, 1958-1972 133

5. Commercialism and Tradition, 1958-1970 168

6. Silent Majorities: The Country Audience as Commodity, Constituency, and Metaphor, 1961-1975 200

Conclusion: Money Music 236

Notes 245

Selective Bibliography 273

Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Pecknold is a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville. She is a coeditor of A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music.