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Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River. By Tracey E. W. Laird. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (American Music-spheres Series.) [x, 208 p. ISBN 0-19-516751-1. $29.95.] Maps, photos, bibliography, discography, filmography, index.

With this book, Tracey E. W. Laird returns to her hometown of Shreveport to examine the forces that shaped the distinctive culture and music of northwest Louisiana and created one of the most significant radio barn dance shows in American music history, the Louisiana Hayride. Using the Hayride and its host radio station KWKH as the centerpiece, Laird questions how intersecting forces of geography, history, ...

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