Popular between the two world wars, American barn dance radio evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybody's-little-sister "girl singer" helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure. Kristine M. McCusker examines the gendered politics of these images through the lives and careers of six women performers: Linda Parker, the Girls of the Golden West (Milly and Dolly Good), Lily May Ledford, Minnie Pearl, and Rose Lee Maphis.
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"McCusker captures the essence of her subject in this discussion of the careers of a handful of female country music radio stars. . . . McCusker delves deep into the changing creations and perceptions of female country performers. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
McCusker's work sheds a welcome light on a musical movement still in living memory for some but forgotten or never known by others."--Library Journal
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Popular between the two world wars, American barn dance radio evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybody's-little-sister "girl singer" helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure. Drawing on personal interviews and rich archival material from the Grand Ole Opry, Kristine M. McCusker examines the gendered politics of these images through the lives and careers of six women performers: Linda Parker, the Girls of the Golden West (Milly and Dolly Good), Lily May Ledford, Minnie Pearl, and Rose Lee Maphis.
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Lulu Belle, Lily May, National Barn Dance, John Lair, Linda Parker, Grand Ole Opry, Minnie Pearl, World War, Great Depression, Renfro Valley, Jeanne Muenich, Rose Lee, Alka Seltzer, Grinder's Switch, Bradley Kincaid, Family Songs of Surpassing Sweetness, Banjo Pickin'Girl, Patsy Montana, Sarah Colley Cannon, Berea College, Coon Creek Girls, Will There Be Any Yodelers, Grace Wilson, Whitey Ford, New Deal Browse Sample Pages:
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