The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry

by Diane Pecknold

Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates that commercialism has been just as powerful a cultural narrative in its development. Listeners have long been deeply invested in the "business side" of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340801
• ISBN13: 9780822340805
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"