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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George H Lewis |
| ISBN: | 0879725737 9780879725730 0879725745 9780879725747 |
| OCLC Number: | 27862830 |
| Description: | 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Lighting up the purple sky: roots of modern country. Mimesis in Bill Monroe's bluegrass music / Robert Cantwell -- Age, the body and experience in the music of Hank Williams / Richard Leppert and George Lipsitz -- Patsy Cline, musical negotiation, and the Nashville sound / Joli Jensen -- Elvis, country music, and the South / Bill C. Malone -- Waltz across Texas: local and regional forms and influences. Local styles and country music: an introductory essay / Paul Fryer -- Country music and the southernization of America / James C. Cobb -- Romantic regionalism and convergent culture in central Texas / Nicholas R. Spitzer -- Mexican musical influences on country songs and styles / George H. Lewis -- A tombstone every mile: country music in Maine/ George H. Lewis -- There'll always be a honky-tonk somewhere: country culture. Honky-tonking: mass mediated culture made personal / Joli Jensen -- Split subjectivity in country music and honky-tonk discourse / Aaron A. Fox -- Alienation and single musicians on the honky-tonk circuit / Karl Neuenfeldt -- Nashville skyline: the business of country music. Country music: popular or folk? / Neil V. Rosenberg -- The commercial art world of country music / George H. Lewis -- Characteristics of successful and unsuccessful country music songs / Charles Jaret -- Function in the country song Tight fittin' jeans / John H. Planer -- Reasons for rhymers: sensibility, emotion and country values. Country music and American values / John Buckley -- Tension, conflict and contradiction in country music / George H. Lewis -- Engendering narratives of lament in country music / Katie Stewart -- Romantic narcissism in "outlaw" cowboy music / Michael Dunne -- The streets of Bakersfield (the lights of Baltimore): personal, political and social issues. Images of women and men in country music / Karen A. Saucier -- Forbitten fruit: interracial love affairs in country music / Stephen I. Thompson -- Country music and organized religion / Jimmie N. Rogers and Stephen A. Smith -- Populist ideology and country music / Jock Mackay -- If wishes were changes: country at the crossroads. The old sound of new country / Ken Tucker -- Are you sure Hank done it this way? / David Gates -- Alison Krauss and the contemporary-traditional conflict in modern bluegrass / Mark Fenster -- Rosanne Cash walks her own line / Jan Hoffman. |
| Series Title: | Popular music series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by George H. Lewis. |
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