Nashville Cats - Record Production in Music City

Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City, 1945-1975 explores the roles that recording engineers, session musicians, and record producers played in shaping the sounds of country music during the fertile "Nashville Sound" era.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Birth of the Nashville Recording Industry


• Chapter 2: The Musicianship of the Nashville Cats


• Chapter 3: Musical Branding, Artist Identity, and the Nashville Sound


• Chapter 4: Musical Labor and the Nashville Studio System


• Afterword


• Works Cited

About the author

Travis D. Stimeling is Associate Professor of Musicology at the West Virginia University School of Music, where he also directs the WVU Bluegrass and Old-Time Bands. He is the author of Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Scene (OUP, 2011) and The Country Music Reader (OUP, 2015), and edited The Oxford Handbook of Country Music (OUP, 2017).

Summary

Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City, 1945-1975 explores the roles that recording engineers, session musicians, and record producers played in shaping the sounds of country music during the fertile "Nashville Sound" era.

Additional text

Travis D. Stimeling's fabulous book is the first to tell us the important history of session musicians during the Nashville Sound era, and it brings our understanding of country music recording history to a whole new level. Anyone interested in the exciting story of how individual musicians helped shape country music should read Nashville Cats.

Product details

• Authors: Travis D. Stimeling, Travis D. (Associate Professor of Music Stimeling, Stimeling Travis D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2020
• EAN: 9780197502815
• ISBN: 978-0-19-750281-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Nashville, Tennessee, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass, Music Industry, c 1960 to c 1970, Music recording & reproduction, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1960 to c 1969, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, C 1945 To C 1960, Music recording and reproduction