[Free] Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
▲ Peter Stanfield ▲
| #2603895 in Books | 2002-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.75 | File Name: 0252070496 | 192 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Essential Reading!|By Richard J. Oravitz|I disagree with the previous reviewer. Why would (or did?) he read a book that he obviously has no interest in? I found HORSE OPERA well written and insightful. The author has a true love of singing cowboy movies and clearly understands why audiences flocked into theaters during the Depression era to spend their hard earned coinage on l||"Isn't just a lively and entertaining round-up of movies about warbling cowboys, it's also a comment on how such a bizarre trend began... Stanfield expertly plumbs the subject, presenting a view on these films from the perspective of keen moviegoer and adept
In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression. The rural or newly urban working-class families who flocked to see the latest exploits of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, and other singing cowboys were an audience largely ignored by mainstr...
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy | Peter Stanfield. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
