Selling Sound - The Rise of the Country Music Industry

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Industry history of the country music business. Zusammenfassung Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. This title demonstrates that commercialism has been just as powerful a cultural narrative in the development of country music. 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

Product details

• Authors: Diane Pecknold
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2007
• EAN: 9780822340591
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4059-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries