Country Music Annual 2001 by Charles K. Wolfe (Editor), James E. Akenson (Editor)

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The swelling interest in popular music studies has far outpaced the outlets for publication. With the Country Music Annual, scholars, students, and interested readers now have a national venue for sharing their ideas. This third volume of the acclaimed country music series explores topics ranging from the career of country music icon Conway Twitty to the recent phenomenal success of the bluegrass-flavored soundtrack to the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? The differences between redneck subculture and the redneck underground, the promotion of early country music artists with picture postcards, and a history of "the voice of the Blue Ridge Mountains" (North Carolina radio station WPAQ) are also discussed in these pages. Also included is an analysis of early marketing strategies for country music and a look at the formation of the Country Music Association as the "chamber of commerce" for country music as hillbilly music was commercialized.

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