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Baseball
and Country Music
Don Cusic
A Ray and Pat Browne Book,
with the Popular Press imprint
"The two enterprises Baseball and Country Music do indeed
contain and exemplify key elements of the American dream of upward
mobility."
—Douglas A. Noverr, Michigan State University
The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks
through most of the twentieth century. America's sport and America's
music moved 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.
"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
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.
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October 2003
LC: 2003007235 GV
120 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-87972-857-4 Cloth $29.95 s
ISBN 0-87972-858-2 Paper $14.95t
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