Walking the line : country music lyricists and American culture / / edited by Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.4216420973
• Soggetto topico: Country music - History and criticism; Lyricists - United States
• Altri autori: HolmesThomas Alan HardeRoxanne
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Credits; Introduction; Chapter One: "Nobody Knows but Me"; Chapter Two: Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the West; Chapter Three: "Help Your Brother along the Road"; Chapter Four: JC: Johnny Cash and Faith; Chapter Five: Religious Doctrine in the Mid-1970s to 1980s Country Music Concept Albums of Willie Nelson; Chapter Six: Grace to Catch a Falling Soul; Chapter Seven: Loretta Lynn, Appalachian Storyteller and Autobiographer; Chapter Eight: "Branded" Man: Merle Haggard's Romance of the Outlier; Chapter Nine: Townes Van Zandt ; Chapter Ten: Wildness, Eschatology, and Enclosure in the Songs of Townes Van ZandtChapter Eleven: "Where it counts I'm real"; Chapter Twelve: "Sin City"; Chapter Thirteen: Weeping Willows and Long Black Veils; Chapter Fourteen: "They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway"; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their nation's religion, literature, and politics. Walking the line requires following strict codes, respecting territories, and, sometimes, yearning to break those bonds. This collection's essays explore how iconic country lyricists such as Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Steve Earle have tested and expanded such boundaries, challenging musical, social, and political conventions, often reevaluating what "country" means in country musi
• Titolo autorizzato: Walking the line
• ISBN: 0-7391-6966-1; 0-7391-6968-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790864903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II