by Don Cusic
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-87972-857-1 | Paper: 978-0-87972-858-8
Library of Congress Classification GV867.64.C87 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.3570973

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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