Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio

by Kristine M. McCusker

American barn dance radio of the 1920s-1940s evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybody's-little-sister "girl singer" helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure.

Drawing on personal interviews and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075242
• ISBN13: 9780252075247
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"