HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vernon Dalhart, Kenny Chesney, Gordie Sampson
Document Summary
Product often creative, or at least recorded and brought to you to be consumed. Talking point (social/cultural/political) several songs have been controversial, very direct. Fieldwork studied people and social processes of music. Ethnography interviews and engagement with people. Cm production centered in nashville, tennessee in the late 1940s/ early 1950s. Grand ol" opry (radio barn dance show) Music row (recording studios, publishers, artist management, musicians, singers, songwriters, lawyers) Country songs, when effective, resonate with listeners in such a way that they are able to produce an experience of authenticity (i. e. countryness"). The contradictions seemingly inherent in this process are reconciled through performance, and songwriters create the vehicles that allow this to happen. Minstrelsy, vaudeville now considered racist depictions of. African americans, but then written to as focal point for drama. Tin pan alley (tpa) congregation of publishers and songwriters, popular music production (1880"s 1940"s). Themes include rurality, family, god (i. e. protestant), working class, patriotism and tradition.
