Smile when you call me a hillbilly
Subtitle: country music's struggle for respectability, 1939-1954
By: Jeffrey J. Lange
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Country music -- To 1951 -- History and criticism; Country music -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism; Country music -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-306) and index
Table of contents: title: The nationalization of country music; title: Radio barn dances, schoolhouse shows, and "hillbilly" domestication : progressive country music in the prewar era; title: The great breakthrough : World War II and the national acceptance of country music; title: The southwestern component : Texas swing, western swing, and urban country music; title: The modernization of country music; title: Alternative string bands and old-time revivalists : the postwar traditionalists; title: Country music at the dawn of the sunbelt era : honky-tonk and the promotional blitz; title: The sophistication of country music : the rise of country pop in the postwar decade; title: Across the great divide : country blues renaissance and the centralization of country music