Baseball and Country Music

by Don Cusic

Overview

The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks through most of the twentieth century. America's sport and America's music moved from the fringes to the mainstream, gaining exposure and building heroes, first via radio broadcasts and then on the television screen. Both evolved with American society through wartime, the Civil Rights movement, and into the age of multimillion dollar superstars. Don Cusic offers an engaging and insightful analysis that addresses race, gender, class, ethnicity, business practices and marketing, performance, media, and the cult of celebrity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879728588
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	10/16/2003
Series:	A Ray and Pat Browne Book
Edition description:	1
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Don Cusic is Professor of Music Business at Belmont University as well as a writer and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of many books on music and popular culture including Cowboys and the Wild West and Willie Nelson: Lyrics 1957-1994.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
1	The Early Years	10
2	Radio and Electricity	25
3	Country Music and Baseball in America	34
4	War Clouds Gather	50
5	The World War II Years	64
6	After the War	75
7	The Fifties	90
8	Baseball and Country Music on TV	99
9	Radio in the Fifties	108
10	Baseball and Country Music in a Changing World	115
11	Baseball and Country Music's Troubled Times	120
12	Baseball and Country Music on TV: Stage Two	134
	Conclusion	139
	Notes	149
	Bibliographical Essay	152
	Bibliography	156
	Index	169

Editorial Reviews

"The two enterprises Baseball and Country Music do indeed contain and exemplify key elements of the American dream of upward mobility."—Douglas A. Noverr, Michigan State University

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