Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Richard Nixon, Johnny Cash, and the political soul of country music / Mark Allan Jackson
  • The N.R.A. blues : commercial country music and the New Deal / Gregory N. Reish
  • Senator Glen H. Taylor : radio's utopian singing cowboy / Peter La Chapelle
  • Weeping and flamboyant men : Webb Pierce and the campy theatrics of country music / Stephanie Vander Wel
  • Stand up to your man : the working-class feminism of Loretta Lynn / Mark Allan Jackson
  • "I'm the other one" : O.B. McClinton and the racial politics of country music in the 1970s / Charles L. Hughes
  • "I'm a radical for real" : an oral history of country music's original outlaw, Steve Young / Ted Olson
  • "Them's my kind of people" : cross-marginal solidarity in country music of the long seventies / Nadine Hubbs
  • Man against machine : Garth Brooks as player and provocateur / Stephanie Shonekan
  • "Leave country music to white folk"? : narratives from contemporary African-American country artists on race and music / Stephen A. King and P. Renee Foster
  • Reading hick-hop : the shotgun marriage of hip-hop and country music / Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • Alternative country music and the American midwest as industrial wasteland / Travis D. Stimeling
  • The politics of covers : Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, and the American recordings / Jonathan Silverman.