Horse opera : the strange history of the 1930s singing cowboy / Peter Stanfield.

Author/creator Stanfield, Peter, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2002.
Descriptionx, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Western films--United States. --History and criticism.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States. --Biography.
Country musicians--United States. --Biography.

Contents Introduction : keep them clean -- By the costume we may tell the man : turn-of-the-century fiction and the figure of the cowboy -- Liberty's cuckoos : cowboys of the silent screen -- Monodies for the cowpuncher : cowboy songs and singers -- Cowboy republic : producing the singing western -- Cowboy minstrels : series westerns and musical performance -- New Deal cowboys : the mystery of the hooded riders.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-171) and index.
LCCN 2001005008
ISBN0252027337 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252070496 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.W4 S83 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold