Mary Ellen Pethel, Don Cusic

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The Minnie Pearl Story

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Produktbeschreibung

Sarah Colley Cannon, better known as her stage character, Minnie Pearl, was born in Hickman County, Tennessee, in 1912. After graduating from Ward-Belmont, now Belmont University, she joined a touring theater company and produced and directed plays and musicals throughout the Southeast. In 1940 an executive for WSM radio in Nashville saw her Minni Pearl character and invited her to appear on the Grand Ole Opry. Cannon would play Minnie Pearl on both the Opry stage and the television show Hee Haw for the next fifty years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798895270592
• Artikelnr.: 73484805

Autorenporträt

Mary Ellen Pethel is a professor of practice at Belmont University and chair of the social science department at Harpeth Hall School, both in Nashville. She is the author of Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee's Trailblazers: Fifty Years, Fifty Stories and Athens of the New South: College Life and the Making of Modern Nashville. Don Cusic is a professor of music business and the Music City Professor of Music Industry History at Belmont University in Nashville. He is the author of nearly thirty books on country music and musicians, including most recently America and the American Record Business: A History. He is the editor of the International Journal of Country Music.