The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks from the fringes to the mainstream, gaining exposure and building heroes, first via radio broadcasts and then on the television screen. Both evolved with American society through wartime, the Civil Rights movement, and into the age of multimillion dollar superstars. Don Cusic offers an engaging and insightful analysis that addresses race, gender, class, ethnicity, business practices and marketing, performance, media, and the cult of celebrity.

About the Author
Don Cusic is professor of music business at Belmont University as well as a writer and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of many books on music and popular culture including Cowboys and the Wild West and Willie Nelson: Lyrics 1957-1994.

Reviews
Baseball and country music have many historic links.... Don Cusic finds these in their lower- or working-class popularity and in their ongoing quests for respectability (which money and success finally brought to both). - Ronnie Pugh, author of Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour



Book Information
ISBN 9780879728588
Author Don Cusic
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint The Popular Press
Publisher The Popular Press
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 10mm