Diane Pecknold

The Selling Sound

The Rise of the Country Music Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

"Any intelligent reader will enjoy "The Selling Sound." Tackling an element of country music that few other writers have addressed, Diane Pecknold redefines the relationship between the 'financial economy' and 'cultural economy.'"--David Sanjek, coauthor of "Pennies from Heaven: The American Popular Music Business in the Twentieth Century"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340805
• ISBN-10: 0822340801
• Artikelnr.: 22874018

Autorenporträt

Diane Pecknold

Inhaltsangabe

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