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...Don Cusic Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Don Cusic Country Green: The Money in Country Music In 1979 Wal-Mart sold one billion dollars worth of merchandise in its 230 stores; by 1989 there were 1,402 stores, with sales total­ ing $8.1 billion. These simple facts also per­...

...Curtis W. Ellison Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Curtis W. Ellison Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music It s Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The date is 22 Janu­ ary 1994, and country music fans, artists, family, friends...

...Michael Kurek; Cecelia Tichi Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Michael Kurek and Cecelia Tichi Country Music and the Contemporary Composer: The Case of Paul Martin Zonn In 1981, Joel Krosnick, cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet, commissioned a work from composer Paul Martin...

...David Sanjek Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 David Sanjek Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising Over the Mystery Train: The Complex Construction of Country Music Somebody told me when I came to Nashville Son you finally got it made Old Hank made it here We re all sure that you...

...Vivien Green Fryd Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Vivien Green Fryd The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices : Thomas Hart Benton s Sources of Country Music In December 1934, Time magazine applauded Thomas Hart Benton as a Regionalist painter whose dynamic narrative, figurative paint­...

...Ronnie Pugh Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Ronnie Pugh Mecca for the Country Music Scholar l^ownstairs in one of America s most fa­ mous tourist attractions, Nashville s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, is housed an unmatched collection of research materi­ als...

...Teresa Goddu Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Teresa Goddu Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music Cecelia Tichi: But you re talking about country. I mean, I ve heard some of those traditional old songs you have called Appalachian dead-baby songs. So...

...Cecelia Tichi Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Cecelia Tichi Country Music, Seriously: An Interview with Bill C. Malone Since the 1960s, Bill C. Malone s name has been synonymous with country music studies. His lifelong love affair" with the music re­ sulted first in the 1968...

...Christopher Metress Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Christopher Metress Sing Me a Song about Ramblin Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music To get there you take I-65 straight south out of Nashville. The ride is good and gentle, and before you know it you...

...Richard A. Peterson Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Richard A. Peterson The Dialectic of Hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country Music ^Conventional histories of twentieth-cen­ tury country music trace a virtually linear development from folk-like to commercial and pop-like music...

...Trent Hill Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Trent Hill The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s The traditional approach to censoring the objectionable in the realm of high culture tends to pit the heroic censor and the forces of the Good against...

...G.W.W. In Music in English Renaissance Drama ( Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1968 , $7.50 Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Book Reviews 281 Anglo-American diplomacy and the previous humiliations he had suf­ fered at the hands of President Roosevelt...

...Julia Spiegelman Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 WALT WHITMAN AND MUSIC JULIA SPIEGELMAN MARCH 26,1942, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Walt Whitman in his unpretentious little home on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey. More and more in those fifty years...

...G. H. Carrithers Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne . By Webber Joan . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1963 . Pp. 227 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne...

...Kerry McSweeney Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 The End of A Dance to the Music of Time Kerry McSweeney Anthony Powell has been a fixture of the English literary scene for almost half a century. After Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for a London publisher during...

...Oscar Mandel Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Dissonant Music Sixty Years After Oscar Mandel What will vanguardism leave to posterity? Nothing but smoldering cinders which its propagandists, shout­ ing from the housetops, are trying to make us believe are a living forest...

...Oscar Mandel Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Dissonant Music Sixty Years After Oscar Mandel What will vanguardism leave to posterity? Nothing but smoldering cinders which its propagandists, shout­ ing from the housetops, are trying to make us believe are a living forest...

...George W. Williams Music of the Old South: Colony to Confederacy . By Stoutamire Albert . Rutherford, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , 1971 . Pp. 349 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 163 have their problems. The index...

...Alan K. Manchester The Human Side of Music . By Hughes Charles W. . New York : The Philosophical Library , 1948 . Pp. xviii , 341 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 304 The South Atlantic Quarterly and conceptual thinking, on the whole to the seeming...

...Kent Blaser Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 "Pictures from Life s Other Side : Hank Williams, Country Music, and Popular Culture in America Kent Blaser On i January 1953, Hank Williams, on an all night road trip to a New Years Day performance at Canton, Ohio, died in the back...