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At The Crossroads Commercial Music And Community Experience The Quonset Auditorium - A Roadhouse On The Dixie Highway, Amber Ridington Dec 2002

At The Crossroads Commercial Music And Community Experience The Quonset Auditorium - A Roadhouse On The Dixie Highway, Amber Ridington

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This study of the Quonset Auditorium, one roadhouse among many on the regular tour route of R&B, gospel and country musicians in the post-World War II era (1947- 1959), illustrates the important role of roadhouses during a time of growth and change in popular music. It situates memories and experiences from the Quonset Auditorium in relation to regional and national movements of the day such as highway development, commercial and popular music, and the civil rights movement. With hindsight, we can see that the Quonset Auditorium stood at a crossroads as regards these social and technological movements of the post-WW …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs Jan 2002

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Dittmeier, Kate. Aramark Gets Food Contract
  • Loyal, Taylor. Crossing Over – Phi Beta Sigma, Integration
  • Holm, Hollan. Students Fooled by Magazine Sales Pitch
  • Charles Henson Memorial Service Today
  • Forensic Team Competes in St. Louis
  • Famed Western Alum Dies – Phil Bailey
  • College Heights Herald Wins Kentucky Press Association General Excellence
  • Shinall, Dave. High Schoolers Visit Hill
  • Warren, Brandy. Old Mall to be Renovated for Business Leasing
  • Wood Selig Should Set Policy for Athletes, Coaches – Crime
  • Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Athletics Policies
  • Walker, Joyce. Charles Henson Was Educator, …