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Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly - Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 (Paperback, New)
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Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly - Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954 (Paperback, New)
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Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends
both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it
was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in
the South and was perceived by many Americans as "hillbilly music."
In "Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly, Jeffrey J. Lange examines
the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country
music's transformation from a rural, southern folk art form to a
national phenomenon. In his meticulous analysis of changing
performance styles and alterations in the lifestyles of listeners,
Lange illuminates the aculturation of country music and its
audience into the American mainstream. Dividing country music into
six subgenres (progressive country, western swing, postwar
traditional, honky tonk, country-pop, and country-blues), Lange
discusses the music's expanding appeal. As he analyzes the
recordings and comments of each of the subgenre's most significant
artists, including Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Bill Monroe, Hank
Williams, and Red Foley, he traces the many paths the musical form
took on its road to respectability. Lange shows how along the way
the music and its audience became more sophisticated, how the
subgenres blended with one another and with American popular music,
and how Nashville emerged as the country music hub. By 1954, the
transformation from "hillbilly" music to country music was
complete, precipitated by the modernizing forces of World War II
and realized by the efforts of promoters, producers, and
performers.
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