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100	1		_aGuarino, Mark, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCountry & midwestern : _bChicago in the history of country music and the folk revival / _cMark Guarino.
246	3	3	_aCountry and midwestern :
264		1	_aChicago : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c2023.
300			_axi, 524 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe WLS Barn Dance and the Call to Chicago -- "Hillbilly Heaven" in Chicago: Uptown and Skid Row -- The Gate of Horn and the Chicago Folk Revival -- Win Stracke and the Old Town School of Folk Music -- Bohemia in Hyde Park: The University of Chicago Folk Festival -- Chicago's Second Folk Boom: The 1970s in Old Town and Lincoln Park -- Country Music Surges and Bluegrass Arrives -- "Insurgent Country": Looking Backward to Go Forward -- The Old, Weird Chicago -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Chicago in Song -- Appendix B. Essential Chicago Country and Folk Albums.
520			_a"Chicago is recognized around the world for its place in the history of jazz, gospel, and the blues. Far less known is the surprisingly important role Chicago played in country music and the folk revival. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Mark Guarino tells a forgotten story of music in Chicago and reveals how the city's institutions and personalities influenced sounds we today associate with regions further south. It is a story of migration and of the ways that rural communities became tied to growing urban centers through radio, the automobile, and the railroad. As the biggest city in the agricultural Midwest, Chicago became a place where rural folk 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, Chicago was the most active city for the genre's musicians and record labels. In the mid-1920s, the stars of WLS radio's Barn Dance modernized the sounds of country fiddlers and polished the mountain tunes of Appalachia for contemporary ears. By the 1940s, Chicago had the greatest concentration of country musicians in the US. Bill Monroe, The Carter Family, and Gene Autry all recorded some of their most legendary music in Chicago. When the larger recording industry drifted to the coasts after World War II, Chicago became known for working folk musicians who could freely experiment, collaborate, and perform at a distance from the sometimes stifling star structure of Nashville's Music Row. Guarino tells the stories of the Chicago hustlers who evolved new strains of country music in the city's bars, punk clubs, classrooms, and auditoriums. The College of Complexes, The Gate of Horn, the Earl of Old Town, the Old Town School of Folk Music, Club Lower Links, and Lounge Ax served as creative incubators for different generations of music. Steel Hills and Concrete Valleys is a story as vital as the city itself, a celebration of the colorful characters who kept country and folk moving forward, and of the music itself, which even today is still kicking down doors"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCountry music _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aFolk music _zUnited States _xHistory and criticism. _959466
655		7	_aInformational works. _2lcgft _9222299
700	1		_aFulks, Robbie, _eauthor of foreword. _965611
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