Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels : the women of barn dance radio
- Title
- Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels : the women of barn dance radio / Kristine M. McCusker.
- Published by
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 194 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series statement
- Music in American life
- Subject
- Contents
- "Family songs of surpassing sweetness" : vaudeville, Appalachia, technology, and the emergence of barn dance radio -- "Bury me beneath a willow" : Jeanne Muenich, Linda Parker, and the appearance of southern female characters on barn dance stages -- "Hey, hey, hey, the hayloft gang is here" : Lulu Belle Wiseman and the emergence of the professional radio barn dance -- "Will there be any yodelers in heaven?" : the girls of the golden West and selling the stage -- Banjo pickin' girl : Lily May Ledford, the Roosevelts, and constructing national identity -- "Howdee! I'm jes so proud t'be here" : Sarah Colley Cannon (better known as Minnie Pearl), World War II, and the Grand Ole Opry -- "Oh carry me back to the mountains" : Rose Lee Maphis and laboring on the air -- Coda : barn dance radio's new friend, Loretta Lynn.
- Call number
- JME 08-575
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
- Author
- McCusker, Kristine M.
- Title
- Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels : the women of barn dance radio / Kristine M. McCusker.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
- Series
- Music in American life
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
- LCCN
- 2007035937
- ISBN
- 9780252033162 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252033167 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252075247 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0252075242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JME 08-575