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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798178403321

Titolo

Country boys and redneck women : new essays in gender and country music / / edited by Diane Pecknold and Kristine M. McCusker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4968-0495-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

American Made Music Series

Altri autori (Persone)

Country music

Disciplina

781.642081

Soggetti

Country musicians - United States

Women country musicians - United States

Sex role in music

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; COUNTRY BOYS and REDNECK WOMEN; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction                   ; Why "Ladies Love Country Boys": Gender, Class, and Economics in Contemporary Country Music                                                                                                 ; "Hey! If I Should Grab Ya": "College Country" and the Ruralization of Urban Brazil

Act Naturally: Charley Pride, Autobiography, and the "Accidental Career"                                                                               Holding On to Country: Musical Moorings for Desired Masculinities in Aboriginal Australia                                                                                                ; Taylor Swift's "Pitch Problem" and the Place of Adolescent Girls in Country Music

Gender and the Nashville Songwriter: Three Songs by Victoria Banks                                                                         As if They Were Going Places: Class and Gender Portrayals through Country Music in the Texas State Prison, 1938-1944

Negotiating Gender, Race, and Class in Post-Civil Rights Country Music: How Linda Martell and Jeannie C. Riley Stormed the Plantation                                                                                                                                            Remarkable Women and Ordinary Gals: Performance of Identity in Songs by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton                                                                                                            ; "Backwoods Barbie": Dolly Parton's Gender Performance

Kitty Wells, Queen of Denial                                   Gender Deviance and Class Rebellion in "Redneck Woman"                                                             ; Selected Bibliography                            ; Notes on Contributors                            



; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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