Discovering Country Music
by Cusic, DonFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-07-30
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary
Discovering Country Music chronicles the incredible evolution of country music in America - from the fiddle to the pop charts - and provides an insightful account of the reasons and motives that have determined its various transformations and offshoots over the years. In order to understand what country music is, and why, it is essential to understand how it makes its money -- the basic revenue streams, the major companies involved, and how country artists are booked and marketed. Author Don Cusic helps readers do that, and goes even further, covering not only the business and the technology that have shaped the industry, but also tackling the question of country's relationship to the other major genres of the American recording industry, including pop, blues, and rock music.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Country Music: What Is It? | p. 1 |
| Early Country Music | p. 7 |
| On Radio and in the Movies | p. 25 |
| Country Music in the 1940s | p. 49 |
| Country Music in the 1950s | p. 71 |
| Politics and Country Music | p. 87 |
| Country Music and the National Media | p. 103 |
| Country Music in the 1960s and 1970s | p. 111 |
| The 1980s and 1990s | p. 125 |
| Country Radio | p. 141 |
| Country Music Internationally | p. 149 |
| Politics and Religion | p. 159 |
| The Twenty-First Century | p. 173 |
| The Road Ahead | p. 187 |
| Notes | p. 195 |
| Bibliography | p. 199 |
| Index | p. 207 |
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