Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Masters Theses & Specialist Projects Graduate School 1-1994 Hillbilly Music & Early Live Radio Programming in Bowling Green & Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon James Nelson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses Part of the Ethnomusicology Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Performance Commons, Radio Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Nelson, James, "Hillbilly Music & Early Live Radio Programming in Bowling Green & Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon" (1994). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 3151. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3151 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses & Specialist Projects by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. HILLBILLY MUSIC AND EARLY LIVE RADIO PROGRAMMING IN BOWLING GREEN AND GLASGOW, KENTUCKY: COUNTRY MUSIC AS A LOCAL PHENOMENON A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by James S. Nelson January 1994 ': �"". ,, _-,: .....·� L. �·:::·-: •. �:j ;-� ..; E'::) �i/( ---�-�:� ��·.:������C.�L:} l��j·..; ·�t":]117 /,:!, HILLBILLY MUSIC AND EARLY LIVE RADIO PROGRAMMING IN BOWLING GREEN AND GLASGOW, KENTUCKY: COUNTRY MUSIC AS A LOCAL PHENOMENON a e 1-'f ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to my thesis committee: To Erika Brady, whose constant encouragement and painless criticism helped me to complete this endeavor; to Lynwood Montell for putting . me onto Jim Bowles, thereby setting this whole process in motion and for his many other helpful hints and leads; to Charles Wolfe, whose own fine country music scholarship has been an inspiration for years.