The Selling Sound
The Rise of the Country Music Industry
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2007
312 pages
978-0-8223-9030-5 (ISBN)
Description
Industry history of the country music business.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2007
Duke University Press
€34.00
Article not available at the moment
Book
11/2007
Duke University Press
€113.50
Article not available at the moment
Persons
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.
Content
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
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
