The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee

The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee

Tennessee Jamboree poster, LaFollette, Tennessee, late 1960s. Part of a wave of local, post-WWII "barn dance"-style, country music shows, the Tennessee Jamboree radio program was modeled on earlier, nationally popular programs like Nashville's Grand Ole Opry and Chicago's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradley Hanson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2008-11-01
Series:Southern Spaces
Subjects:
Appalachian Studies
Film/Television/Radio
Music
Rural Studies
Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42635
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Summary:Tennessee Jamboree poster, LaFollette, Tennessee, late 1960s. Part of a wave of local, post-WWII "barn dance"-style, country music shows, the Tennessee Jamboree radio program was modeled on earlier, nationally popular programs like Nashville's Grand Ole Opry and Chicago's National Barn Dance. The Tennessee Jamboree reimagined and reshaped the genre into a platform for local cultural expression. Drawing upon newly recovered broadcasts, interviews with Jamboree participants, and images from the Tennessee State Archive and Library, this essay resituates the Tennessee Jamboree within several historical and cultural contexts that help to illuminate the expressive life of Lafollette, Tennessee, the broad sweep of regional broadcasting, and the incomplete chronicle of the barn dance genre.
ISSN:1551-2754

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