02853nam 2200577Ia 450 991113756480332120251117004950.01-282-55563-497866125556331-60473-953-3(CKB)2670000000019409(EBL)534340(OCoLC)630107739(SSID)ssj0000411479(PQKBManifestationID)11913098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411479(PQKBWorkID)10354690(PQKB)11646002(MiAaPQ)EBC534340(MdBmJHUP)muse13614(Au-PeEL)EBL534340(CaPaEBR)ebr10389878(EXLCZ)99267000000001940920070928d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAin't that a knee-slapper rural comedy in the twentieth century /Tim Hollis1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20081 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-934110-73-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index.Contents; Introduction: What This Book Ain't; Chapter One: Let's See What's Going on Down in Pine Ridge; Chapter Two: Radio Rules the Roost; Chapter Three: Hillbillies Go Hollywood; Chapter Four: Feudin', Fussin', and A-Fightin'; Chapter Five: Peace in the Valley; Chapter Six: What It Was, Was the Fifties; Chapter Seven: The Country Broadcasting System; Chapter Eight: From Cartoon Alley to Kornfield Kounty; Chapter Nine: They're in a Heap o' Trouble; Chapter Ten: Still Fertile Ground; Bibliography; IndexThere was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the ""Redneck"" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century , author Tim Hollis traces the evolution of this classic American form of humor in the mass media, beginning with the golden age of radio, when such comedians as Bob Burns, Judy Canova, and Lum and Abner kept listeners laughing. The book then moves into the motion picRural comediesUnited StatesHistory and criticismAmerican wit and humorHistory and criticismRural comediesHistory and criticism.American wit and humorHistory and criticism.891.4Hollis Tim1679252MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911137564803321Ain't that a knee-slapper4873138UNINA