Country boys and redneck women : new essays in gender and country music /

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Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre's power and mystique.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pecknold, Diane (Editor), McCusker, Kristine M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
Country music > History and criticism.
Country musicians > United States.
Women country musicians > United States.
Sex role in music.
Musiciens country > États-Unis.
Musiciennes country > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la musique.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Country music.
Country musicians.
Women country musicians.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why "Ladies love country boys" : gender, class, and economics in contemporary country music / Jocelyn R. Neal
  • "Hey! If I should grab ya" : "college country" and the ruralization of Urban Brazil / Alexander S. Dent
  • Act naturally : Charley Pride, autobiography, and the "accidental career" / Matthew D. Sutton
  • Holding on to country : musical moorings for desired masculinities in Aboriginal Australia / êAse Ottosson
  • Taylor Swift's "pitch problem" and the place of adolescent girls in country music / Travis Stimeling
  • Gender and the Nashville songwriter : three songs by Victoria Banks / Chris Wilson
  • As if they were going places : class and gender portrayals through country music in the Texas State Prison, 1938-1944 / Caroline Gnagy
  • Negotiating gender, race, and class in post-civil rights country music : how Linda Martell and Jeannie C. Riley stormed the plantation / Diane Pecknold
  • Remarkable women and ordinary gals : performance of identity in songs by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton / Kate Heidemann
  • "Backwoods Barbie" : Dolly Parton's gender performance / Leigh H. Edwards
  • Kitty Wells, queen of denial / Georgia Christgau
  • Gender deviance and class rebellion in "Redneck woman" / Nadine Hubbs.

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