Full Description
Discovering Country Music chronicles the incredible evolution of country music in America - from the fiddle to the pop charts - and provides an insightful account of the reasons and motives that have determined its various transformations and offshoots over the years. In order to understand what country music is, and why, it is essential to understand how it makes its money — the basic revenue streams, the major companies involved, and how country artists are booked and marketed. Author Don Cusic helps readers do that, and goes even further, covering not only the business and the technology that have shaped the industry, but also tackling the question of country's relationship to the other major genres of the American recording industry, including pop, blues, and rock music.
Discovering Country Music is broken down into ten sections which include: key musical trends; ancillary business trends such as recording technology, radio, and the recording industry; and prominent artists, including as a small sample Stephen Foster, The Carter Family, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Kenny Chesney. This work should appeal to fans, scholars, educators, libraries and the general reader alike.
Contents
1: COUNTRY MUSIC: WHAT IS IT?
2: EARLY COUNTRY MUSIC
3: ON RADIO & THE IN THE MOVIES
4: COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE 40s
5: COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE 50s
6: POLITICS AND COUNTRY MUSIC
7: COUNTRY MUSIC & THE NATIONAL MEDIA
8: COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE 60s AND 70s
9: THE 80s AND 90s
10: COUNTRY RADIO
11: INTERNATIONAL
12: POLITICS AND RELIGION
13: THE 21ST CENTURY
14: THE ROAD AHEAD
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