''Country Music is Wherever the Soul of a Country Music Fan Is'': Opryland U.S.A. and the Importance of Home in Country Music: An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

"Nixon's visit (only five months before his resignation) was seen by national journalists and politicos to be a trip to one of the few places where he would still receive a warm reception, and it was quite warm indeed. Nixon took the stage, played two songs on the piano, and bantered with Roy Acuff." When the Opry changed sites it wasn't without a good deal of growing pains, angst, and rhetoric-but by taking old values to the new venue, not to mention a circle of the original old floor, country music survived the switch. This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

There are no customer reviews available at this time. To add your review, Register or Sign In to your account using our free Reader Library software.

• Published by

  The University of North Carolina Press

• Publish Date

  November 30, 2011 

• eBook ISBN

  9780807872567

• Imprint

  The University of North Carolina Press

• Filesize

  962.23 KB

• Number of Print Pages*

  N/A

* Number of eBook pages may differ. Click here for more information.