Selling Sound The Rise of the Country Music Industry

Name: Selling Sound The Rise of the Country Music Industry
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ISBN: 9780822340805

ISBN-10: 0822340801

ISBN-13: 9780822340805

Edition: 2007

Authors: Diane Pecknold, Charles McGovern

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Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates that commercialism has been just as powerful a cultural narrative in its development. Listeners have long been deeply invested in the "business side" of country. When fans complained in the mid-1950s about elite control of the mass media, or when they expressed their gratitude that the Country Music Hall of Fame served as a physical symbol of the industry's power, they engaged directly with the…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Commercialism as a Cultural Text



Commercialism and the Cultural Value of Country Music, 1920-1947



Country Music Becomes Mass Culture, 1940-1958



Country Audiences and the Politics of Mass Culture, 1947-1960



Masses to Classes: The Country Music Association and the Development of Country Format Radio, 1958-1972



Commercialism and Tradition, 1958-1970



Silent Majorities: The Country Audience as Commodity, Constituency, and Metaphor, 1961-1975


Conclusion: Money Music


Notes


Selective Bibliography


Index