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Richard A. Peterson

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1) Creating country music: fabricating authenticity

Author

Peterson, Richard A

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

c1997

Language

English

Description

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In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing the activities of the key promoters who sculpted the emerging country music scene. More than just a history of the music and its performers, this...