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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17d18ff58b6f40749294fef6390769382022-12-21T18:18:18ZengEmory Center for Digital ScholarshipSouthern Spaces1551-27542008-11-0110.18737/M7FS41The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East TennesseeBradley Hanson0Brown UniversityTennessee 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.https://southernspaces.org/node/42635Appalachian StudiesFilm/Television/RadioMusicRural Studies |
| spellingShingle | Bradley Hanson The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee Southern Spaces Appalachian Studies Film/Television/Radio Music Rural Studies |
| title | The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee |
| title_full | The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee |
| title_fullStr | The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee |
| title_short | The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee |
| title_sort | tennessee jamboree local radio the barn dance and cultural life in appalachian east tennessee |
| topic | Appalachian Studies Film/Television/Radio Music Rural Studies |
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