Singing in the Saddle
The History of the Singing Cowboy
2nd Edition
Published on 31. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
978-0-915608-45-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ranger Doug Green’s immensely popular history of Western Music!
A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B. Green is uniquely suited to write the story of the singing cowboy, from the early days of vaudeville and radio, through the heyday of movie westerns before World War II, to the current revival. He provides rich and careful analysis of the studio system that made Gene Autry and Roy Rogers famous, and he documents the role that country music and regional television stations played in carrying on the singing cowboy tradition after the war. Green’s story reveals how the imagery of the singing cowboy has become such a potent force that even now country musicians don cowboy hats to symbolically take part in the legend.
A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B. Green is uniquely suited to write the story of the singing cowboy, from the early days of vaudeville and radio, through the heyday of movie westerns before World War II, to the current revival. He provides rich and careful analysis of the studio system that made Gene Autry and Roy Rogers famous, and he documents the role that country music and regional television stations played in carrying on the singing cowboy tradition after the war. Green’s story reveals how the imagery of the singing cowboy has become such a potent force that even now country musicians don cowboy hats to symbolically take part in the legend.
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Series
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
150 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-915608-45-4 (9780915608454)
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Previous edition
Book
10/2005
Vanderbilt University Press
€48.46
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Person
Douglas B. Green is a music historian and performer. As Ranger Doug (the Idol of American Youth), he founded Riders In The Sky, the premier Western group of the modern era.
Content
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
- The Lure of the West 1
- The Cowboy and Song 9
- Western Music in the Air: Records and Radio to 1934 20
- The Sons of the Pioneers and Billy Hill: Painting the West in Song 69
- Western Music Rides to the Big Screen 94
- Gene Autry: Public Cowboy # 1 120 Sidebar: Gene Autry on the Road 140
- The Next Generation: Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Dick Foran, Ray Whitley, and the Rest of the Posse 149
Sidebar: Tex Ritter on the Road 162
- Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys 187
- High Noon: The Musical Western at Its Zenith 198
- Riding into the Celluloid Sunset 226
- In the Ether: Radio, Records, and Television from 1934 275
- The Fallow Years 305
- Revival 316
Time Line 325
Notes 335
Bibliography 341
Index 357