Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country M...

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Weitere Verfasser: Amy, Schrager Lang (MitwirkendeR), Cecelia, Tichi (MitwirkendeR), Charles K., Wolfe (MitwirkendeR), Charmaine, Lanham (MitwirkendeR), Christine, Kreyling (MitwirkendeR), Christopher, Metress (MitwirkendeR), Curtis W., Ellison (MitwirkendeR), David, Sanjek (MitwirkendeR), Don, Cusic (MitwirkendeR), Jocelyn, Neal (MitwirkendeR), John W., Rumble (MitwirkendeR), Mark, Fenster (MitwirkendeR), Mary A., Bufwack (MitwirkendeR), Michael, Kurek (MitwirkendeR), Pamela, Wilson (MitwirkendeR), Richard A., Peterson (MitwirkendeR), Ronnie, Pugh (MitwirkendeR), T. Walter, Herbert (MitwirkendeR), Teresa, Goddu (MitwirkendeR), Teresa, Ortega (MitwirkendeR), Tichi, Cecelia (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [1998]
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Zusammenfassung:With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music acknowledges the significance of country music as part of an authentic American heritage and turns a loving, critical eye toward understanding the sweep of this peculiarly American phenomenon.Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, sociology, art, and music, this anthology looks at everything from the inner workings of the country music industry to the iconography of certain stars to the development of distinctive styles within the country music genre. Essays include a look at the shift from "hard-core" to "soft-shell" country music in recent years; Johnny Cash as lesbian icon; gender, class, and region in Dolly Parton's star image; and bluegrass's gothic tradition. Originally published as a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, this expanded book edition includes new articles on the spirituality of Willie Nelson, the legacy and tradition of stringed music, and the revival of Stephen Foster's blackface musical, among others.Contributors. Mary A. Bufwack, Don Cusic, Curtis W. Ellison, Mark Fenster, Vivien Green Fryd, Teresa Goddu, T. Walter Herbert, Christine Kreyling, Michael Kurek, Amy Schrager Lang, Charmaine Lanham, Bill Malone, Christopher Metress, Jocelyn Neal, Teresa Ortega, Richard A. Peterson, Ronnie Pugh, John W. Rumble, David Sanjek, Cecelia Tichi, Pamela Wilson, Charles K. Wolfe
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (424 pages) 72 b&w photographs
ISBN:9780822397786
DOI:10.1515/9780822397786

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