Hank Williams Reader Ram C.
Patrick. Huber
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (353 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- The Hank Williams Reader -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note about Editorial Policies -- Introduction -- GOALS AND PURPOSES -- ORGANIZATION -- CODA -- Part I: "King of the Hillbillies": Chronicling Hank Williams During His Lifetime(1947-1953) -- 1. William E. Cleghorn: Hank Williams Rides on Down Trail of National Popularity on Air Records -- WAITS FOR INSPIRATION -- WHITE SOMBRERO -- RELIGIOUS SONGS -- TAKES 30 MINUTES -- 2: Reverend A. S. Turnipseed: pulpit echoes -- MUSIC TOLD A STORY -- HANK WILLIAMS COMING -- 3: Allen Rankin: 'Cause Hank Is Moving In, Move It Over, Big Time -- "FANS? THERE'S A MOB OF 'EM!" -- HANK'S KIND IS THEIR KIND -- 4: Gene L. Roe: Got "Lovesick Blues"? No Sir ,Not Hank Williams -- 5: Gold in Them Hillbillies -- 6: Golden Oatunes: H. Williams Clefs 22 Hillbilly Toppers -- 7: Hank Has a Method: Williams Tells How and Why His Disks Click -- 8: Rufus Jarman: Country Music Goes to Town -- 9: Audrey Mae Williams and Hank Williams: Excerpts from Divorce Complaint and Defendant's Answer and Cross-Bill in Audrey Mae Williams vs. Hank Williams, Et Al. -- 10: Edith Lindeman: Hank Williams Hillbilly Show Is Different -- POLICEMEN SHOW UP -- 11: Famous Song Composer Is Arrested Here -- Part II: "Hank, It Will Never Be the Same without You" Mourning the Death of Hank Williams ( January-February 1953) -- 12: Mystery Shrouds Death of Singer Hank Williams -- 13: H. B. Teeter: Hank Williams Had Premonition of Death -- CAREER WAS FABULOUS -- WAS DEAD ON ARRIVAL -- SOLD PEANUTS, SHINED SHOES -- SONGS SOLD FAST -- "I'M SO LONESOME . . ." -- DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM -- TOLD OFF BERLE -- WAS OFTEN BROKE -- PUT IT ON TAPE -- WAS DIVORCED -- 14: Joe Azbell: Hank's Funeral Is Far Largest in All Montgomery's History -- FILED PAST CASKET -- MUSICIANS CRY -- "A GREAT AMERICAN" -- MAJORITY WERE FANS -- MARIED IN NEW ORLEANS.. - 15: Selected Newspaper Editorials -- "MONTGOMERY'S FAMOUS FOLK SINGER" ALABAMA JOURNAL (MONTG OMERY), JANUARY 2, 1953 -- "HANK WILLIAMS" NASHVILLE BANNER, JANUARY 2, 1953 -- "MR. HANK WILLIAMS" NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, JANUARY 3, 1953 -- "HANK WILLIAMS" MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER, JANUARY 3, 1953 -- "AT THE CEMETERY" MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER, JANUARY 6, 1953 -- "ART AND HILLBILLY MUSIC" KANSAS CITY (MO.) TIMES, JANUARY 6, 1953 -- "A GREAT SINGER PASSES" SPOKANE (WASH.) DAILY CHRONICLE, JANUARY 8, 1953 -- "A NEW CATEGORY OF NATIONAL HERO" HARTFORD (CONN.) COURANT, JANUARY 12, 1953 -- 16: Allen Rankin: So Long, Hank. Hear You Later -- TRUE BARD, '47 TO '53 -- STREET VENDOR WITH DREAMS -- SLEPT THROUGH SCHOOL -- WARM, WARM HEARTS -- 17: Selected Letters to the Editor -- "SONGS FROM THE HEART" ALABAMA JOURNAL (MONTGOMERY), JANUARY 6, 1953 -- "WE LOVED YOU, HANK" NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, JANUARY 7, 1953 -- "LOST A FRIEND" NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, JANUARY 7, 1953 -- "HE WAS NOT PREJUDICED" MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER-ALABAMA JOURNAL, JANUARY 11, 1953 -- "CAPABLE ARTIST" MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER-ALABAMA JOURNAL, JANUARY 11, 1953 -- "HANK WILLIAMS IN THE LAND OF WAGNER" MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER, FEBRUARY 24, 1953 -- 18: Frank Walker: Letter to Hank Williams -- Part III: "Hank Williams Won't Die: "The Legend Emerges (1953-1964) -- 19: Audrey Williams (as told to the Montgomery Advertiser): Hank's First Wife Tells Up and Downs of Marriage -- "HAD A DATE" -- FORETOLD HIS FAME -- 20: Mrs. W. W. Stone (with Allen Rankin): Excerpt from Our Hank Williams, "The Drifting Cowboy," as Told by His Mother to Allen Rankin -- 21: Was Singer a Suicide? -- PAROLE OFFICE RELEASES IT -- HEADED FOR SKIDROW -- AGENT'S LETTER QUOTED -- FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS? -- GRADUAL DECAY NOTED -- WIFE ALSO DEAD -- 35 FOR A DIPLOMA -- PRISON REPORT EYED -- 22: Eli Waldron: The Death of Hank Williams -- "I SAW THE LIGHT".. - 41: Minnie Pearl (with Joan Dew): Excerpt from Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography -- 42: Chet Flippo: Excerpt from Your Cheatin' Heart: A Biography of Hank Williams -- 43: John Morthland: Excerpt from The Best of Country Music -- Part VI: "Gone But Not Forgotten Blues" Entering the American Mainstream (1985-1994) -- 44: Kent Blaser: "Pictures from Life's Other Side": HankWilliams, Country Music, and Popular Culture inAmerica -- 45: Richard Leppert and George Lipsitz: "Everybody's Lonesome for Somebody": Age, the Body and Experience in the Music of Hank Williams -- AGE AND HISTORICISATI ON OF THE BODY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 46: Jett Williams (with Pamela Thomas): Excerpt from Ain't Nothin' as Sweet as My Baby: The Story of Hank Williams' Lost Daughter -- 47: Nolan Porterfield: The Day Hank Williams Died: Cultural Collisions in Country Music -- 48: Douglas McPherson: Sex, Drugs and Country Music: A Profile of Hank Williams, America's Darkest Legend -- 49: Lee Smith: Review of Don Cusic, Hank Williams: The Complete Lyrics -- 50: Colin Escott (with George Merritt and William MacEwen): Excerpt from Hank Williams: The Biography -- Part VII: Our Hank Williams Becoming an American Icon (1995-2013) -- 51: Christopher Metress: Sing Me a Song about Ramblin 'Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music -- NOTES -- 52: Teddy Gerald: Hank Williams Sr. Is Alive! -- 53: John Gilmore: Excerpt from Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip -- 54: Craig Womack: Howling at the Moon: The Queer But True Story of My Life as a Hank Williams Song -- 55: Sarah Vowell and Brian Alcorn: Two Reviews of The Complete Hank Williams -- SARAH VOWELL, "AIN'T NO LIGHT," VILLAGE VOICE, SEPTEMBER 29, 1998 -- BRIAN ALCORN, "WHISKEY-BENT AND HELL-BOUND," SF WEEKLY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1998.. - 56: Joe "Penny" Pennington: Excerpt from Lookin' Back on Hank: Some Things You Never Knew about the Legendary Hank Williams -- 57: Rick Bragg: Foreword to Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway -- 58: Peter Cooper: Retracing a Ghostly Night Ride -- I JUST DON'T LIKE THIS KIND OF LIVIN' -- BRISTOL TO BUTCHER SHOP -- I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE -- 61-6, OR THE ALABAMA WALTZ -- 59: Derek McCormack: Excerpt from The Haunted Hillbilly -- 60: Mark Jacobson: Hank Williams -- 61: Bob Dylan: Excerpt from Chronicles, Volume One -- 62: John R. George: Imagining Tee-Tot: Blues, Race, and the Legend of Hank Williams -- NOTES -- 63: Steve Earle: Excerpt from I'll Never Get Out of This WorldAlive -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- PART I. "KING OF THE HILLBILLIES" (1947-1953) -- PART II. "HANK, IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME WITHOUT YOU" -- PART III. "HANK WILLIAMS WON'T DIE" (1953-1964) -- PART IV. BRINGING THE LEGEND TO LIFE (1965-1974) -- PART V. SCENES FROM THE LOST HIGHWAY (1975-1984) -- PART VI. "Gone But Not Forgotten Blues" (1985-1994) -- PART VII. OUR HANK WILLIAMS (1995-2013) -- Index.. - HANK'S BEST GIRL -- ONE WIDOW TOO MANY -- 23: Sanford Mabrie: The Strange Life and Death of Hank Williams -- A LIFE OF CONTRADICTIONS -- AN ILL-TEMPERED EGOMANIAC -- NO WELCOME MAT -- VICTIM STRIKES BACK -- A SUCCESSION OF PAY-OFFS -- ALWAYS GOOD FOR A TOUCH -- 24: Ed Linn: The Short Life of Hank Williams -- 25: Irene Williams Smith: Three "Hank's Corner" Columns from Country Song Roundup -- MARCH 1955 (p. 24) -- FEBRUARY 1957 (p. 8) -- JUNE 1957 (p. 28) -- 26: Charlie Lamb: Liner Notes to Hank Williams' Greatest Hits -- 27: Stanford Whitmore: Excerpt from the Screenplay for Your Cheatin' Heart -- NASHVILLE MANSION SCENE , CA. Early 1952 -- Part IV: Bringing the Legend to Life The Search for the "Real" Hank Williams (1965-1974) -- 28: Bill C. Malone: Excerpt from Country Music, U.S.A.: A Fifty-Year History -- NOTES -- 29: Joe Azbell: No Direction Signs Exist -- 30: Ralph J. Gleason: Perspectives: Hank Williams, Roy Acuff and Then God!! -- 31: Roger M. Williams: Excerpt from Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams -- 32: David Halberstam: Hank Williams Remembered -- 33: Irene Williams Smith: My Treasured Life with a Beloved Brother(1972) -- 34: Harry E. Rockwell: Excerpt from Beneath the Applause (A Story about Country & -- Western Music and Its Stars- Written by a Fan) -- 35: Henry Pleasants: Excerpt from The Great American Popular Singers -- Part V: Scenes from the Lost Highway Shedding Light on the Dark Side (1975-1984) -- 36: Greil Marcus: Excerpt from Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music -- 37: Billie Jean Horton: Fear and Loathing at Hank's Funeral -- 38: Michael Bane: Excerpt from The Outlaws: Revolution in Country Music -- 39: Al Bock: Excerpt from I Saw the Light: The Gospel Life of Hank Williams -- 40: Hank Williams, Jr. (with Michael Bane): Excerpt from Living Proof: An Autobiography.. - Featuring more than sixty essential writings about country music's great singer and songwriter Hank Williams, this book reveals interpretations of his life over the last six decades and chronicles his transformation from star-crossed hillbilly singer to enduring American icon.
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