HANK WILLIAMS READER RAM C - Huber

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Résumé :
Featuring more than sixty essential writings about country music's great singer and songwriter Hank Williams, this book reveals interpretations of his life over the last six decades and chronicles his transformation from star-crossed hillbilly singer to enduring American icon....

Biographie:

• Introduction


• A Note about Editorial Policies


• PART I. King of the Hillbillies: Chronicling Hank Williams During His Lifetime (1946-1953)


• 1. Hank Williams Rides on Down Trail of National Popularity on Air Records William E. Cleghorn


• 2. Pulpit Echoes Rev. A. S. Turnipseed


• 3. 'Cause Hank Is Moving In, Move It Over, Big Time Allen Rankin


• 4. Got 'Lovesick Blues'? No Sir, Not Hank Williams Gene L. Roe


• 5. Gold in Them Hillbillies Unidentified newspaper


• 6. Golden Oatunes: H. Williams Clefs 22 Hillbilly Toppers Billboard


• 7. Hank Has a Method: Williams Tells How and Why His Disks Click Billboard


• 8. Country Music Goes to Town Rufus Jarman


• 9. Excerpts from Divorce Complaint and Defendant's Answer and Cross-Bill in Audrey Mae Williams vs. Hank Williams, Et Al. Audrey and Hank Williams


• 10. Hank Williams Hillbilly Show Is Different Edith Lindeman


• 11. Famous Song Composer is Arrested Here Shreveport Times


• PART II. Hank, It Will Never Be the Same without You: Mourning the Death of Hank Williams (January-February, 1953)


• 12. Mystery Shrouds Death of Singer Hank Williams Knoxville Journal


• 13. Hank Williams Had Premonition of Death H. B. Teeter


• 14. Hank's Funeral is Far Largest in All Montgomery's History Joe Azbell


• 15. Selected Newspaper Editorials Various newspapers


• 16. So Long, Hank. Hear You Later Allen Rankin


• 17. Selected Letters to the Editor Various newspapers


• 18. Frank Walker's Letter to Hank Williams Cash Box


• PART III. Hank Williams Won't Die: The Legend Emerges (1953-1964)


• 19. Hank's First Wife Tells Up and Downs of Marriage Audrey Williams, as told to the Montgomery Advertiser


• 20. Excerpt from Our Hank Williams, The Drifting Cowboy, as Told by His Mother to Allen Rankin Mrs. W. W. Stone, with Allen Rankin


• 21. Was Singer a Suicide? Oklahoma City Times


• 22. The Death of Hank Williams Eli Waldron


• 23. The Strange Life and Death of Hank Williams Sanford Mabrie


• 24. The Short Life of Hank Williams Ed Linn


• 25. Three Hank's Corner Columns Irene Williams Smith


• 26. Liner Notes to Hank Williams' Greatest Hits Charlie Lamb


• 27. Excerpt from the Screenplay for Your Cheatin' Heart Stanford Whitmore


• PART IV. Bringing the Legend to Life: The Search for the Real Hank Williams (1965-1974)


• 28. Excerpt from Country Music, U.S.A.: A Fifty-Year History Bill. C. Malone


• 29. No Direction Signs Exist: Tourists Grope Their Way to Reach Williams' Grave Joe Azbell


• 30. Hank Williams, Roy Acuff and Then God!! Ralph J. Gleason


• 31. Excerpt from Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams Roger M. Williams


• 32. Hank Williams Remembered David Halberstam


• 33. My Treasured Life with a Beloved Brother Irene Williams Smith


• 34. Excerpt from Beneath the Applause (A Story about Country and Western Music and Its Stars-Written by a Fan) Harry E. Rockwell


• 35. Excerpt from The Great American Popular Singers Henry Pleasants


• PART V. Scenes from the Lost Highway: Shedding Light on the Dark Side (1975-1984)


• 36. Excerpt from Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music Greil Marcus


• 37. Fear and Loathing at Hank's Funeral Billie Jean Horton


• 38. Excerpt from The Outlaws: R...

  Sommaire:
  Patrick Huber is a professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author of three other books, including Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (2008), which won the International Country Music Conference's 2009 Belmont Book Award and the American Folklore Society's 2010 Wayland D. Hand Prize.
  
  Steve Goodson chairs the History Department at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1920 (2002), which won the Georgia Historical Society's Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the best book published on Georgia history in 2002.
  
  David M. Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of History at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. He is the co-author of The Making of Dale Hawkins in Shreveport Sounds in Black and White (2008).
  
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