The hayloft gang
Subtitle: the story of the National Barn Dance
By: edited by Chad Berry.
Contributors: Berry, Chad, 1963-
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780252033537; 9780252075575
Subjects: National Barn Dance (Radio program); Country music -- Middle West -- History and criticism; Radio broadcasting -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Assessing the National Barn Dance / Chad Berry; title: Music of the early Barn Dance / Paul Tyler; title: Music of the postwar era / Wayne W. Daniel; title: Chicago as country music mecca / Lisa Krissoff Boehm; title: Early broadcasting and radio audiences / Susan Smulyan; title: Race and rural identity / Michael T. Bertrand; title: Patriarchy and the great depression / Kristine McCusker; title: Cowboys in Chicago / Don Cusic; title: The National Folk Festival / Michael Ann Williams.