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Author:

Stanfield, Peter, 1958-

Title:

Horse opera : the strange history of the 1930s singing cowboy / Peter Stanfield.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

x, 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Western films--United States--History and criticism.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Country musicians--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : keep them clean -- By the costume we may tell the man : turn-of-the-century fiction and the figure of the cowboy -- Liberty's cuckoos : cowboys of the silent screen -- Monodies for the cowpuncher : cowboy songs and singers -- Cowboy republic : producing the singing western -- Cowboy minstrels : series westerns and musical performance -- New Deal cowboys : the mystery of the hooded riders -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

9780252070495 (paper : alk. paper)
0252070496 (paper : alk. paper)
9780252027338 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252027337 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2001005008

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)