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UNINA9910459602003321 |
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Titolo |
The women of country music : a reader / / edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2003 |
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0-8131-8497-5 |
0-8131-5773-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Women country musicians |
Country music - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Polly Jenkins and her musical plowboys: a vaudeville valedictory / W. Daniel -- "And no man shall control me": the strange case of Roba Stanley, country's first woman recording star / C. Wolfe -- "Do you want mustard?" "Yup!": first lady of banjo Roni Stoneman / E. Wright -- Getting the word out: the country of Bronwen Wallace and Emmylou Harris / G. Nixon-John -- Rose Lee Maphis and working on barn dance radio, 1930-1960 / K. McCusker -- "Reconsider Me": Margaret Lewis Warwick and the Louisiana Hayride / T.E.W. Laird -- Home to Renfro Valley: John Lair and the women of the barn dance / M.A. Williams -- The voice behind the song: Faith Hill, country music, and reflexive identity / J. Neal -- The cow that's ugly has the sweetest milk / R. Thomas -- Women in Texas music: a conversation with the Texana Dames / K. Hudson -- If you're not in it for love: Canadian women in country music / L.J. Daniel -- The yodeling cowgirls: Australian women and country music / A. Smith -- Teaching about women in country music / J. Akenson. |
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Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the |
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best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920's career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50's honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride's Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more. |
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UNINA9910166652903321 |
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Autore |
Maxey Ruth |
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South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010 / / Ruth Maxey [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh University Press, 2011 |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012 |
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1-4744-2355-8 |
0-7486-5384-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures |
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English literature - South Asian authors - History and criticism |
American literature - South Asian American authors - History and criticism |
Literature |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-246) and index. |
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Introduction: Framing South Asian Writing in America and Britain, 1970-2010 -- Home and nation in South Asian Atlantic literature -- Close encounters with ancestral space : travel and return in Transatlantic South Asian writing -- Brave new worlds? Miscegenation in South Asian Atlantic literature -- 'Mangoes and cocunuts and grandmothers' : food in Transatlantic South Asian writing -- Conclusion: the future of South Asian Atlantic literature. |
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Tracing a literary lineage for works from different genres it identifies key trends in recent South Asian American and British Asian literature by considering the favoured formal and aesthetic modes of major |
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writers and by relating their work to different historical developments sexual politics the marketplace and issues of literary value. |
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