Country and Midwestern
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Country and Midwestern
Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226110943
Fecha de Publicación:
2023 April
Precio: $35.00
Breve descripción (SPA)
En Country and Midwestern, el veterano periodista Mark Guarino cuenta la épica historia centenaria de la influencia de Chicago en los sonidos típicamente asociados con las regiones más al sur. Basándose en cientos de entrevistas y una profunda investigación de archivo, Guarino cuenta una historia olvidada de música, migración y las formas en que la cultura rural se infiltró en las comunidades urbanas a través de la radio, el automóvil y el ferrocarril.
Breve descrição (POR)
Em Country and Midwestern, o veterano jornalista Mark Guarino conta a épica história de um século da influência de Chicago nos sons tipicamente associados às regiões mais ao sul. Baseando-se em centenas de entrevistas e extensa pesquisa de arquivo, Guarino conta uma história esquecida de música, migração e as formas como a cultura rural se infiltrou nas comunidades urbanas via rádio, automóvel e trem.
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The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.
Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul icon Mavis Staples, hip-hop firebrand Kanye West, and the jazz-rock band that shares its name with the city. Far less known, however, is the vital role Chicago played in the rise of prewar country music, the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and the contemporary offspring of those scenes.
In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad. The Midwest’s biggest city was the place where rural transplants could reinvent themselves and shape their music for the new commercial possibilities the city offered. Years before Nashville emerged as the commercial and spiritual center of country music, major record labels made Chicago their home and recorded legendary figures like Bill Monroe, The Carter Family, and Gene Autry. The National Barn Dance—broadcast from the city’s South Loop starting in 1924—flourished for two decades as the premier country radio show before the Grand Ole Opry. Guarino chronicles the makeshift niche scenes like “Hillbilly Heaven” in Uptown, where thousands of relocated Southerners created their own hardscrabble honky-tonk subculture, as well as the 1960s rise of the Old Town School of Folk Music, which eventually brought national attention to local luminaries like John Prine and Steve Goodman. The story continues through the end of the twentieth century and into the present day, where artists like Jon Langford, The Handsome Family, and Wilco meld contemporary experimentation with country traditions.
Featuring a foreword from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and casting a cross-genre net that stretches from Bob Dylan to punk rock, Country and Midwestern rediscovers a history as sprawling as the Windy City—celebrating the creative spirit that modernized American folk idioms, the colorful characters who took them into new terrain, and the music itself, which is still kicking down doors even today.
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