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04065aam a22003738i 4500 001 696F219EDDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 220902s2023 ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022042607 020 $a 022611094X 020 $a 9780226110943 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a ML3524 $b .G83 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220906 100 1 $a Guarino, Mark, $e author. 245 10 $a COUNTRY AND MIDWESTERN : $b CHICAGO IN THE HISTORY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE FOLK REVIVAL / $c Mark Guarino ; foreword by Robbie Fulks. 263 $a 2304 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/04/24 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The 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 FolkFestival -- 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 oftheir 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. Country and Midwestern is a story as vital as the city itself, a celebration of the colorful characters who keptcountry and folk moving forward, and of the music itself, which even today is still kicking down doors"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Country music $z Chicago $z Chicago $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Folk music $z United States $x History and criticism. $9 80618 700 1 $a Fulks, Robbie, $e writer of foreword. $9 95916 941 $a 5 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240613010646.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240201010300.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230808011340.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230621010538.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230418010908.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=696F219EDDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search