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Smile when you call me a hillbilly : country music's struggle for respectability, 1939-1954 / Jeffrey J. Lange.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3524 .L325 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lange, Jeffrey J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country music--To 1951--History and criticism.
- Country music.
- Country music--1951-1960--History and criticism.
- Country music--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- The nationalization of country music
- Radio barn dances, schoolhouse shows, and "hillbilly" domestication : progressive country music in the prewar era
- The great breakthrough : World War II and the national acceptance of country music
- The southwestern component : Texas swing, western swing, and urban country music
- The modernization of country music
- Alternative string bands and old-time revivalists : the postwar traditionalists
- Country music at the dawn of the sunbelt era : honky-tonk and the promotional blitz
- The sophistication of country music : the rise of country pop in the postwar decade
- Across the great divide : country blues renaissance and the centralization of country music.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820326224
- 0820326232
- OCLC:
- 54096821
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