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I'd fight the world : a political history of old-time, hillbilly, and country music / Peter La Chapelle.
LIBRA ML3524 .L24 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Chapelle, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country music--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Country music.
- Country music--Political aspects--Southern States--History.
- Musicians as politicians--United States--History.
- Musicians as politicians.
- History.
- Southern States.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- I would fight the world
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the ghost of Tom Watson
- Fire on the mountain: the initial surge of old-time and hillbilly music campaigns
- "Like Orpheus": the nineteenth century encounters the twentieth
- Antisemitism and Henry Ford's old-time music revival
- Sound trucks and radio stars: the arrival of the nonperformers
- Pensions and poll taxes: identifying a style of hillbilly music politics
- Utopian buckaroo: senator Glen Taylor and country music's left tradition
- Dixie-bent and White House-bound: regional culture, national aspirations
- A fiery but fickle faith: the Vanderbilt agrarians, Southern politics, and the country music memoir
- The nonperformers take over: Big Jim, the Little Judge, and the nationalization of country music politics
- Still not ready to make nice: the legacies of the country music campaign.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226922997
- 0226922995
- 9780226923000
- 0226923002
- OCLC:
- 1085666511
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