Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
Autor Douglas B. Greenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2024
A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B. Green is uniquely suited to write the story of the singing cowboy, from the early days of vaudeville and radio, through the heyday of movie westerns before World War II, to the current revival. He provides rich and careful analysis of the studio system that made Gene Autry and Roy Rogers famous, and he documents the role that country music and regional television stations played in carrying on the singing cowboy tradition after the war. Green’s story reveals how the imagery of the singing cowboy has become such a potent force that even now country musicians don cowboy hats to symbolically take part in the legend.
Preț: 223.31 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 335
Preț estimativ în valută:
42.74€ • 44.39$ • 35.50£
42.74€ • 44.39$ • 35.50£
Carte nepublicată încă
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780915608454
ISBN-10: 0915608456
Pagini: 370
Ilustrații: 150 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
ISBN-10: 0915608456
Pagini: 370
Ilustrații: 150 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
Recenzii
“This is the most comprehensive, most thoroughly researched and in my view, most readable book ever published on the singing cowboys. . . . The author’s writing skills make it fun to read. It’s fascinating!” —The Western Way
“Green . . . brings both savvy and wry good humor to Singing in the Saddle, [a] lively account of the singing cowboy as both a show-business phenomenon and an icon of American popular culture.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Throughout, Singing in the Saddle does what the best singing-cowboy movies did—it offers an escape to a world where the skies are never cloudy and the good guys always win.” —Country Weekly
"For real fans Singing in the Saddle is a bunkhouse pal, a must-have chronicle of the personalities and the music that rode the range together into our Western dreams.” —Houston Chronicle
“Green . . . brings both savvy and wry good humor to Singing in the Saddle, [a] lively account of the singing cowboy as both a show-business phenomenon and an icon of American popular culture.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Throughout, Singing in the Saddle does what the best singing-cowboy movies did—it offers an escape to a world where the skies are never cloudy and the good guys always win.” —Country Weekly
"For real fans Singing in the Saddle is a bunkhouse pal, a must-have chronicle of the personalities and the music that rode the range together into our Western dreams.” —Houston Chronicle
Notă biografică
Douglas B. Green is a music historian and performer. As Ranger Doug (the Idol of American Youth), he founded Riders In The Sky, the premier Western group of the modern era.
Cuprins
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Notes 335
Bibliography 341
Index 357
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
- The Lure of the West 1
- The Cowboy and Song 9
- Western Music in the Air: Records and Radio to 1934 20
- The Sons of the Pioneers and Billy Hill: Painting the West in Song 69
- Western Music Rides to the Big Screen 94
- Gene Autry: Public Cowboy # 1 120 Sidebar: Gene Autry on the Road 140
- The Next Generation: Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Dick Foran, Ray Whitley, and the Rest of the Posse 149
- Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys 187
- High Noon: The Musical Western at Its Zenith 198
- Riding into the Celluloid Sunset 226
- In the Ether: Radio, Records, and Television from 1934 275
- The Fallow Years 305
- Revival 316
Notes 335
Bibliography 341
Index 357