Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism

Author/Contributor(s):	Thompson, Joseph M
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	04/02/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to servicemembers.