Proud to be an Okie [[electronic resource] ] : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / / Peter La Chapelle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784417903321
• Autore: La Chapelle Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-75253-3; 9786611752538; 0-520-94000-8; 1-4294-6794-0; 0-520-90402-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Collana: American crossroads ; ; 22
• Disciplina: 781.64209794
• Soggetti: Country music - California - History and criticism; Music - Political aspects; Popular culture - California, Southern - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Chapters 1 and 5 are revised versions of essays previously published in the collected volumes Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850/2000, edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda Long (Nevada Humanities Committee, 2001), and A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America 28 (2001): pp. 3/12."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Big City Ways -- Part 2. Rhinestones and Ranch Homes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930's to the early 1970's. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the ; late 1960's. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.