Baseball and Country Music

by Cusic, Don

• ISBN13: 9780879728588
• ISBN10: 0879728582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State

Summary

The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks from the fringes to the mainstream, gaining exposure and building heroes, first via radio broadcasts and then on the television screen. Both evolved with American society through wartime, the Civil Rights movement, and into the age of multimillion dollar superstars. Don Cusic offers an engaging and insightful analysis that addresses race, gender, class, ethnicity, business practices and marketing, performance, media, and the cult of celebrity.

Author Biography

Don Cusic is Professor of Music Business at Belmont University as well as a writer and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of many books on music and popular culture including Cowboys and the Wild West and Willie Nelson: Lyrics 1957–1994.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(7)
1 The Early Years	10	(15)
2 Radio and Electricity	25	(9)
3 Country Music and Baseball in America	34	(16)
4 War Clouds Gather	50	(14)
5 The World War II Years	64	(11)
6 After the War	75	(15)
7 The Fifties	90	(9)
8 Baseball and Country Music on TV	99	(9)
9 Radio in the Fifties	108	(7)
10 Baseball and Country Music in a Changing World	115	(5)
11 Baseball and Country Music's Troubled Times	120	(14)
12 Baseball and Country Music on TV: Stage Two	134	(5)
Conclusion	139	(10)
Notes	149	(3)
Bibliographical Essay	152	(4)
Bibliography	156	(13)
Index	169