The selling sound : the rise of the country music industry /

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Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pecknold, Diane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Refiguring American music.
Subjects:
Country music > History and criticism.
Music trade > United States.
Country music > Social aspects.
Musique > Industrie > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Country & Bluegrass.
Country music.
Music trade.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Commercialism and the cultural value of country music, 1920-1947
  • Country music becomes mass culture, 1940-1958
  • Country audiences and the politics of mass culture, 1947-1960
  • Masses to classes : the Country Music Association and the development of country format radio, 1958-1972
  • Commercialism and tradition, 1958-1970
  • Silent majorities : the country audience as commodity, constituency, and metaphor, 1961-1975.

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