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Author | : Mark Guarino |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2023-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226824373 |
The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul icon Mavis Staples, hip-hop firebrand Kanye West, and the jazz-rock band that shares its name with the city. Far less known, however, is the vital role Chicago played in the rise of prewar country music, the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and the contemporary offspring of those scenes. In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad. The Midwest’s biggest city was the place where rural transplants could reinvent themselves and shape their music for the new commercial possibilities the city offered. Years before Nashville emerged as the commercial and spiritual center of country music, major record labels made Chicago their home and recorded legendary figures like Bill Monroe, The Carter Family, and Gene Autry. The National Barn Dance—broadcast from the city’s South Loop starting in 1924—flourished for two decades as the premier country radio show before the Grand Ole Opry. Guarino chronicles the makeshift niche scenes like “Hillbilly Heaven” in Uptown, where thousands of relocated Southerners created their own hardscrabble honky-tonk subculture, as well as the 1960s rise of the Old Town School of Folk Music, which eventually brought national attention to local luminaries like John Prine and Steve Goodman. The story continues through the end of the twentieth century and into the present day, where artists like Jon Langford, The Handsome Family, and Wilco meld contemporary experimentation with country traditions. Featuring a foreword from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and casting a cross-genre net that stretches from Bob Dylan to punk rock, Country and Midwestern rediscovers a history as sprawling as the Windy City—celebrating the creative spirit that modernized American folk idioms, the colorful characters who took them into new terrain, and the music itself, which is still kicking down doors even today.
Author | : Jon K. Lauck |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2022-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806191406 |
At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern “squares” center stage—an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck’s cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest’s dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The “good country” was, of course, not the “perfect country,” and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest’s openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.
Author | : David Pichaske |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2010-04-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1441197397 |
A remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.
Author | : William Joseph Seno |
Publisher | : Creative Publishing International |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Phil Christman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781953368089 |
A virtuoso book-length essay on Midwestern identity and the future of the region
Author | : Marilyn Kluger |
Publisher | : Prima Lifestyles |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9781559582971 |
Describes Indiana farm life during the thirties, and gathers traditional recipes for breads, soups, salads, meat, chicken, vegetables, desserts, and holiday meals
Author | : E. W. Howe |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Story of A Country Town is a novel by E. W. Howe, published in 1883 is a great read for anyone interested in the history of the Midwest. It was an immediate success upon publishing and went through many printings. It was reviewed favorably by Mark Twain and William Dean Howells. The action of the novel was placed in Twin Mounds, a fictional city in the American Midwest. It is free from the 19th-century optimism and elevated spirit of other town stories.
Author | : David Pichaske |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-04-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1441197664 |
Author | : Maxine Bergerson Werner |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1626522715 |
In "Country Ragamuffins," Maxine Bergerson Werner invites readers on a journey back to the 1950s as she recalls her upbringing as the oldest girl among eight siblings in a Norwegian farming community in rural Minnesota. To convey and preserve the experiences, values, and character of a typical Midwestern farm family of the time "before those memories grow dim and finally disappear," the author offers this chronicle laced with humor and appreciation. Werners parents cultivated a lifestyle that combined hard work, learning, and time for childhood fun and play in the surrounding fields, pastures, and woodlands. Connectedness was the theme in their happy life. Every member of the family participated in the functioning of the farm; siblings were best friends; and laughter and debate were welcome at the dinner table. The daily routines, the chores, the holiday festivities, and the births of siblings are recorded in scrapbook fashion.
Author | : Roger A. MacDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
In the years after the Second World War, a young doctor took up his post in one of the most remote regions of northern Minnesota. His term of service turned into a lifetime of caring for the people who made this isolated and often lonely place their home. The story of this remarkable adventure in frontline medicine forms the heart of this wonderful book. As a storyteller, MacDonald shows us the beauty of this remote region and the charm of those who make their lives there. With respect, affection, and humility, MacDonald relates his experiences with those who placed their well being in his hands. The result is a warm and warm-hearted tale of the life of a north country doctor.