Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels : the women of barn dance radio /
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Women, the barn dance radio genre, and the roots of the country and western music industry
- "Family songs of surpassing sweetness" : vaudeville, Appalachia, technology, and the emergence of barn dance radio
- "Bury me beneath the willow" : Jeanne Muenich, Linda Parker, and the appearance of southern female characters on barn dance stages
- "Hey, hey, hey, the Hayloft G ang 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.
