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Creating country music : fabricating authenticity / Richard A. Peterson.
| Author/creator | Peterson, Richard A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997. |
| Description | xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Finding country authority -- Part 1. Making the music commercial. Atlanta: birthplace of commercial country music -- Renewable tradition: the Carter family and Jimmie Rodgers -- Gallery 1: The folk vs. pop look -- Part 2. Fabricating the image of authenticity. Old-timer image of authenticity -- Hillbilly image of authenticity -- Cowboy image of authenticity -- Gallery 2: Geezers, hillbillies, and cowboys -- Part 3. Radio-made country music in the 1930s. The Barn Dance in the air -- Radio station barnstorming -- Soft shell vs. hard core: the Vagabonds vs. Roy Acuff -- Gallery 3: The evolving hard-core and soft-shell looks -- Part 4. Making country reproducible. Honky-tonk firmament: lives, music, lyrics -- Hank Williams as the personification of country music -- Gallery 4: Iconic country -- Creating a field called "country" -- Part 5. Authenticity and the future of country music. Authenticity: a renewable resource -- Can the circle be unbroken? |
| Abstract | This book traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing the activities of the key promoters who sculpted the emerging country music scene. More than just a history of the music and its performers, this book is the first to explore what it means to be authentic within popular culture. |
| Local note | Little-306007--305131011579- |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 97009675 |
| ISBN | 0226662845 (cloth : alk. paper) |