The Country Music Reader - Stimeling

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The Country Music Reader provides an anthology of primary source readings encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present, offering firsthand insight into the changing role of country music within both the music industry and American culture.

Résumé :
In The Country Music Reader Travis D. Stimeling provides an anthology of primary source readings from newspapers, magazines, and fan ephemera encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present. Presenting conversations that have shaped historical understandings of country music, it brings the voices of country artists and songwriters, music industry insiders, critics, and fans together in a vibrant conversation about a widely loved yet seldom studied genre of American popular music. Situating each source chronologically within its specific musical or cultural context, Stimeling traces the history of country music from the fiddle contests and ballad collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the most recent developments in contemporary country music. Drawing from a vast array of sources including popular magazines, fan newsletters, trade publications, and artist biographies, The Country Music Reader offers firsthand insight into the changing role of country music within both the music industry and American musical culture, and presents a rich resource for university students, popular music scholars, and country music fans alike....

Biographie:

• THE COUNTRY MUSIC READER


• TABLE OF CONTENTS


• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• Note on Sources


• 1. Lindon K. Starr, Georgia's Unwritten Airs Played by Old 'Fiddler's' for Atlanta Prizes: Untutored Players from Hillsides and Marshes Perform Traditional Southern Melodies on Wire-Stringed Violins-Society Folk and Workers in Audiences 'Shuffle Feet' to Contagious Strains-'Bald Mountain Caruso' and Treble-singing Dog at Unique Convention (1914)


• 2. Cecil B. Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917)


• 3. John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) (excerpt)


• 4.What the Popularity of Hill-Billy Songs Means in Retail Profit Sensibilities: The Widespread Vogue of the Funereal Type of Songs Is Attested by Publishers and Record Manufacturers-Is It of Significance as Indication of Public Taste? (1925)


• 5.Mountain Songs Recorded Here by Victor Co.: Notable Performers of This Section at Work at Station in This City (1927)


• 6. Ralph Peer, Discovery of the 1st Hillbilly Great (1953)


• 7. Bill Williams, excerpt Interview with Mother Maybelle Carter (1968/1971)


• 8. Harold A. Safford, Bradley Kincaid (1928)


• 9. Paul Hobson, Radio's Hillbilly King, Carson Robison, who is, with his Pioneers, a regular attraction for Oxydol every Sunday from Luxembourg, Lyons and Normandy, tells us in this interview how he writes his world-famous songs (1938)


• 10. John Wright, J.E. Mainer (1993)


• 11. Virginia Seeds, Back Stage Ramble: Cowboys and Cow Belles Enjoy the Barn Dance (1936)


• 12. No Hill Billies in Radio: Ballads Are Still Written, Says John Lair (1935)


• 13. Alva Johnston, Tenor on Horseback (1939)


• 14. George D. Hay, excerpt from A Story of the Grand Old Opry (1945)


• 15. Janis Stout, The Light Crust Doughboys Were on the Air: A Memoir (1996)


• 16.Okies Reverse Order of Steinbeck's Tale (1941)


• 17. Maurice Zolotow, Hillbilly Boom (1944)


• 18. Nicholas Dawidoff, Earl Scruggs: Three Fast Fingers (excerpt) (1997)


• 19. Rufus Jarman, Country Music Goes to Town (1953)


• 20. Johnny Cash on recording at Sun with Sam Phillips, Cash: The Autobiography (excerpt) (1997)


• 21. Charlie Louvin, Elvis (2012)


• 22. Murray Nash, Miss Country Music and Her Family (1955)


• 23. Linda Lamendola, Steve Sholes-Star Maker (1956)


• 24. Ben A. Green, Chet Makes Guitar Talk with Rhythm and Melody (1957)


• 25. Coast Country Biz Booms (1957)


• 26. Alan Lomax, Bluegrass Background: Folk Music with Overdrive (1959)


• 27. Tom T. Hall, The Storyteller's Nashville on songwriting and song plugging (1979)


• 28. The Story of the Country Music Association (1968)


• 29. Ask Trina (1968)


• 30. John Grissim, Jr., California White Man's Shit Kickin' Blues (1969)


• 31. Lee Arnold, A DJ Tells Why-There's Country Music in the City Air (1975)


• 32. Michael Bane, The Outlaws: Revolution in Country Music (1978)


• 33. Rex Rutkoski,The Pill: Should It Be Banned from Airplay? (1975)


• 34. George F. Will, Of Pride and Country Music (1975)


• 35. Aaron Latham, The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit (1978)


• 36. Tom Anthony, Kenny Rogers: Drawing Full Houses (1981)


• 37. Alanna Nash, Emmylou Harris (1988)


• 38. Holly G. Miller, Randy Travis: Nice Guy Finishes First (1988)


• 39. Bruce Feiler, Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Fa...

  Sommaire:
  Travis D. Stimeling is an Assistant Professor of Music History at West Virginia University. He is the author of Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene (OUP, 2011) and has published widely on U.S. music topics.
  
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