Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy

ISBN-13: 9780252070495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str.

Peter Stanfield

Opis

Tracing the singing cowboy's roots in the performance tradition of blackface minstrelsy and its literary antecedents in novels, magazine fiction, and the novels of B M Bower, this title shows how silent cinema conventions, the developing commercial music media, and the prevailing conditions of film production shaped the 'horse opera' of the 1930s.