A Good-Natured Riot
The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry
Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book AwardWinner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor AwardOn November 28, 1925, a white-bearded man sat before one of Nashville radio station WSM's newfangled carbon microphones to play a few old-time fiddle tunes. Uncle Jimmy Thompson played on the air for an hour that night, and throughout the region listeners at their old crystal sets suddenly perked up. Back in Nashville the response at the offices of National Life Insurance Company, which owned radio station WSM (We Shield Millions), was dramatic; phone calls and telegrams poured into the station, many of them making special requests. It was not long before sta…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8265-2075-3
- EAN: 9780826520753
- Produktnummer: 27907846
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'483 KB
Über den Autor
Charles K. Wolfe (1943-2006) was one of the leading experts on the history and development of country music. He wrote or edited around twenty books, including The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling (Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Foundation Press). Until his retirement in 2005, he was an English professor at Middle Tennessee State University. His work helped popular music scholarship gain academic acceptance.
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