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With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music acknowledges the significance of country music as part of an authentic American heritage and turns a loving, critical eye toward understanding the sweep of this peculiarly American phenomenon.
Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, sociology, art, and music, this anthology looks at everything from the inner workings of the country music industry to the iconography of certain stars to the development of distinctive styles within the country music genre. Essays include a look at the shift from "hard-core" to "soft-shell" country music in recent years; Johnny Cash as lesbian icon; gender, class, and region in Dolly Parton's star image; and bluegrass's gothic tradition. Originally published as a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly , this expanded book edition includes new articles on the spirituality of Willie Nelson, the legacy and tradition of stringed music, and the revival of Stephen Foster's blackface musical, among others.
Contributors . Mary A. Bufwack, Don Cusic, Curtis W. Ellison, Mark Fenster, Vivien Green Fryd, Teresa Goddu, T. Walter Herbert, Christine Kreyling, Michael Kurek, Amy Schrager Lang, Charmaine Lanham, Bill Malone, Christopher Metress, Jocelyn Neal, Teresa Ortega, Richard A. Peterson, Ronnie Pugh, John W. Rumble, David Sanjek, Cecelia Tichi, Pamela Wilson, Charles K. Wolfe
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With a 75-year history, country music is arguably the most popular music on radio and recordings in the US today. But only recently has it received the serious attention it deserves from scholars and cultural critics, some of whom wrote essays for this volume. Many of these essays are good journalism; some represent careful scholarship. Influenced by themes of postmodernist thought, the authors treat region, class, gender, race, tradition, image, religion, community, and authenticity in a music that--though modern, sophisticated, and ruthlessly promoted for a mass market--comes across as personal and sincere and (according to contributor Curtis Ellison) constructs a community of fans that "functions as a means for imaginatively transcending modernity's negative effects." Most of the contributors focus on lyrics, personalities, images, and the industry; there is no musical analysis. Tichi (English, Vanderbilt Univ.)--author of High Lonesome (CH, Dec'94), a thoughtful book on country music and American culture--is to be commended for assembling this collection and seeing it through publication. Recommended for all academic collections and large public libraries. J. T. Titon; Brown University
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This eclectic collection of essays, originally published as a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly and now expanded into the current work, is a rich example of scholarship focused on country music today. Tichi, director of American Southern studies at Vanderbilt and the author of High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music (Univ. of North Carolina, 1994), chose as her contributors writers from the fields of music, art, communications, history, literature, and sociology. These scholars and critics focus on subjects as diverse as the machinery of the country music business and Johnny Cash as a lesbian icon. From an essay on a mural by Thomas Hart Benton to one on the Country Music Research Center, there is much to gain by reading this anthology. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.Kathleen Sparkman, Baylor Univ., Waco, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
IntroductionCecelia Tichi |
Sing Me a Song about Ramblin' Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country MusicChristopher Metress |
Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising Over the Mystery Train: The Complex Construction of Country MusicDavid Sanjek |
Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country MusicTheresa Goddu |
A Musical Legacy, A Way of Life: A Photo EssayCharmaine Lanham |
Commercial (and/or) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and Bluegrass TraditionsMark Fenster |
Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly PartonPamela Wilson |
Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country MusicCurtis W. Ellison |
Girls with Guitars - and Fringe and Sequins and Rhinestones, Silk, Lace, and LeatherMary A. Bufwack |
Event SongsCharles K. Wolfe |
Country Green: The Money in Country MusicDon Cusic |
Country Music and the Contemporary Composer: The Case of Paul Martin ZonnMichael Kurel and Cecelia Tichi |
"My name is Sue! How do you do?" Johnny Cash as Lesbian IconTeresa Ortega |
The Dialectic of hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country MusicRichard A. Peterson |
"The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices": Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country MusicVivien Green Fryd |
Mecca for the Country Music ScholarRonnie Pugh |
Country Music, Seriously: An Interview with Bill C. MaloneCecelia Tichi |
Reading the RowChristine Kreyling |
The Metric Makings of a Country HitJocelyn Neal |
"The Voice of Woe": Willie Nelson and Evangelical SpiritualityT. Walter Herbert |
"I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven": Fred Rose's Acquaintance with Country MusicJohn W. Rumble |
Jim Crow and the Pale Maiden: Gender, Color, and Class in Stephen Foster's "Hard Times"Amy Schrager Lang |
Selected Discography |
Notes on Contributors |
Index |