Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy Stanfield traces the singing cowboy's previously uncharted roots in the performance tradition of blackface minstrelsy and its literary antecedents in dime novels, magazine fiction. Hard hit by the de
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| Title | : | Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (181 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252070496 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2002-04-04 |
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In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression. The rural or newly urban working-class families who flocked to see the latest exploits of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, and other singing cowboys were an audience largely ignored by mainstream Hollywood film. Hard hit by the depression, faced with the threat - and often the reality - of dispossession and dislocation, pressured to adapt to new ways of living, these small-town filmgoers saw their ambitions, fantasies, and desires embodied in the singing cowboy and their social and political circumstances dramatized in 'B' Westerns. Stanfield traces the singing cowboy's previously uncharted roots in the performance tradition of blackface minstrelsy and its literary antecedents in dime novels, magazine fiction
Editorial : "Isn't just a lively and entertaining round-up of movies about warbling cowboys, it's also a comment on how such a bizarre trend began Stanfield expertly plumbs the subject, presenting a view on these films from the perspective of keen moviegoer and adept media commentator. In penning such a thought-provoking volume, the author stands in for the viewer, giving the reader an opportunity to be an audience member by proxy, and to hear, faintly, the twang of guitars and Gene Autry's yodeling." -- Elizabeth Millard, Foreword Magazine "Stanfield's deft analysis expands the detailed descriptions of singing cowboys in Bill Malone's various books Recommended." -- Choice "Stanfield provides a strong foray into this topic, one that should be considered requisite for any cultural scholar of the early twentieth century." --The Velvet Light Trap
exploring triangle medians with Geometer, Birthday Probability Problem. I like the look of numbers 100 and 101 especially well; I may laminate them for preservation, too.
The book is copyrighted as 2009; I just hope they come out with one for 2010.
Well done, ladies!. First, Jack is consistently portrayed as a man that is very clever, very observant and able to think on his feet and come to quick and usually accurate conclusions. By this I mean familiar and easy to get stuck right in to from the first page, with a story that grips me right through until the last page.
Each and every character in this book is well developed and multidimensional. And, as the subtitle indicates, it is indeed easy to understand. There are typos, it repeats itself in a way that does not tie the topic into the previous mention of the topic. There is almost too much information in this set of study cards. Of course, that was when this book first came out. Some of the visual
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