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Horse Opera: the Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy.(book review)(Book Review)
by Peter Stanfield
Amid the pantheon of American pop and camp icons, the singing cowboy is generally associated with a brand of humor and fun that appeals solely to audiences of children. The assumption that cowboys are for kids has led the singing cowboy to suffer marginalization among cultural scholars despite evidence of the singing cowboy's overwhelming popularity among a wide range of audiences during the first half of the twentieth century. While Depression-era children certainly provided a stable consumer base for the film, radio, and stage productions that featured these costumed performers, the singing cowboy also stood at a cultural intersection between ...
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