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100 1 $aJensen, Joli.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89117422
245 14 $aThe Nashville sound :$bauthenticity, commercialization, and country music /$cJoli Jensen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNashville :$bThe Country Music Foundation Press & Vanderbilt University Press,$c1998.
300 $ax, 218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 200-209) and index.
520 $aThis book is about the value that an audience places on a commercial cultural product like country music. It explores why the concept of authenticity in country music is so crucial to so many of its fans. It does this by examining the dramatic changes that occurred in country music in the 1950s and 1960s, when one popular style - honky-tonk - was effectively supplanted by another - the smoother, more broadly accessible "Nashville Sound" associated with producers Owen Bradley, Chet Atkins, and others.
520 8 $aAuthor Joli Jensen shows how this change was an inventive compromise, a way to maintain the most important aspects of the music's roots while broadening its appeal. She documents this musical and cultural transition in a chapter focusing on the remarkable recording career of Nashville Sound artist Patsy Cline, the artist who most fully embodies these tensions.
520 8 $aJensen explores a variety of far-reaching questions: What does it mean when we label a commercial music "authentic" or "traditional"? Why should an audience value one style of music over another? And, ultimately, what does this expression of taste - the choosing of a commercial musical style - tell us about ourselves, not only as consumers but also as human beings trying to find meaning in a transient world?
650 0 $aCountry music$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101819
852 00 $boff,mus$hML3524$i.J46 1998