Country comes to town : the music industry and the transformation of Nashville / Jeremy Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Jeremy, 1975- author.

Series:

American popular music (Amherst, Mass.)

American popular music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country music--History and criticism.

Country music.

Music trade--Tennessee--Nashville.

Music trade.

Tennessee--Nashville.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

Country Music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might equate the genre with nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres traditional values, Jeremy Hill argues that country music has found such expansive success because its songs and its people have forcefully addressed social and cultural issues as well as geographic change. Hill demonstrates how the genre and its fans developed a flexible idea of "country," beyond their rural roots, and how this flexibility allowed fans and the music to "come to town," to move into and within urban spaces, while retaining a country "character." Book jacket.

Contents:

"Nothing but realism" : early hillbilly music's blend of rural and urban

"Country comes to town" : a new urban identity for country music in the 1960s

"You sound like us but you look like them" : the racial politics of country music in the city of Nashville

"Country music is wherever the soul of a country music fan is" : Opryland U.S.A. and the importance of "home" in country music

"They're not as backward as they used to be" : country music's commercial success in the 1990s and the transformation of downtown Nashville.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625341723

1625341725

9781625341716

1625341717

OCLC:

910596090