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The hayloft gang : the story of the National Barn Dance / edited by Chad Berry.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3524 .H39 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Barn Dance (Radio program).
- Country music--Middle West--History and criticism.
- Country music.
- Radio broadcasting--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Radio broadcasting.
- History.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Middle West.
- Physical Description:
- x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The National Barn Dance was the nation's most popular country music radio show during the 1930s and 1940s, essentially defining country and western entertainment until it was supplanted by the Grand Ole Opry and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. Broadcast for more than three decades from Chicago on WLS's powerful 50,000-watt signal, the show reached listeners throughout the Midwest, the East Coast, and large regions of the South, delivering popular entertainment to rural and urban areas and celebrating the folk traditions that were fading in an increasingly urbanized America.
- Drawing on the colorful commentary of performers and former listeners, contributors to this volume analyze the National Barn Dance and its audience, trace the history of barn dance radio, explore the paradox of country music in a major urban center, investigate notions of authenticity in the presentation of country music and entertainment, and delve into other provocative issues raised by the barn dance phenomenon.
- Contributors are Chad Berry, Michael T. Bertrand, Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Don Cusic, Wayne W. Daniel, Loyal Jones, Kristine M. McCusker, Stephen Parry, Susan Smulyan, Paul L. Tyler, and Michael Ann Williams.
- Contents:
- Assessing the National Barn Dance / Chad Berry
- The rise of rural rhythm / Paul L. Tyler
- Music of the postwar era / Wayne W. Daniel
- Chicago as forgotten country music mecca / Lisa Krissoff Boehm
- Early broadcasting and radio audiences / Susan Smulyan
- Race and rural identity / Michael T. Bertrand
- Patriarchy and the great depression / Kristine M. McCusker
- Cowboys in Chicago / Don Cusic
- The National Folk Festival / Michael Ann Williams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252033537
- 0252033531
- 9780252075575
- 0252075579
- OCLC:
- 185095714
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