Smile when you call me a hillbilly : country music's struggle for respectability, 1939-1954
"In this book, 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. 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Georgia Press, Athens, ©2004