''In her engaging and exciting book, McCusker brings the women of barn dance radio to life. Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels is a fascinating story of how these women constructed their public images to showcase a virtuous, all-American character and support the sale of sponsors' products. The women's lively firsthand accounts are delightful!'' Casey Henry, professional bluegrass musician ''Both entertaining and perceptive, this sweeping study skillfully connects barn dance to the central narratives of American popular culture, touching on constructions of race and class in addition to those of gender, and placing barn dance in the context of new technologies, new business practices, and the expansion of consumer culture. McCusker's work requires us to reevaluate not just the role of women in the country industry, but the development of that industry as a whole, and will prove invaluable to any student of American cultural history.'' Diane Pecknold, author of The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry ''...absorbing book on the genre...along with ten pages of rare photographs, this engrossing book reveals countless facts about the pre-women's-lib days of country music.'' Jim Marshall, BCMA Bulletin, August/September 2008
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