selling sound
Subtitle: the rise of the country music industry
By: Diane Pecknold.
Series: Refiguring American music
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822340591; 9780822340805
Subjects: Country music -- History and criticism; Music trade -- United States; Country music -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Commercialism and the cultural value of country music, 1920/1947; title: Country music becomes mass culture, 1940/1958; title: Country audiences and the politics of mass culture, 1947/1960; title: Masses to classes : the Country Music Association and the development of country format radio, 1958/1972; title: Commercialism and tradition, 1958/1970; title: Silent majorities : the country audience as commodity, constituency, and metaphor, 1961/1975.