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Wrong's what I do best : hard country music and contemporary culture /
This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to &q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk. L With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195355291 0195355296 9780195108354 0195108353 1280453001 9781280453007 0195185994 9780195185997 9786610453009 6610453004 |