Country Boys and Redneck Women: New Essays in Gender and Country Music Contributor(s): Pecknold, Diane (Editor), McCusker, Kristine M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1496804910 ISBN-13: 9781496804914 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: 781.642 |
LCCN: 2015023700 |
Series: American Made Music |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.42 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist girl singer to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current radio playlists can alternate between the reckless masculinity of bro-country and the adolescent girlishness of Taylor Swift. In this follow-up volume to A Boy Named Sue, some of the leading authors in the field of country music studies reexamine the place of gender in country music, considering the ways country artists and listeners have negotiated gender and sexuality through their music and how gender has shaped the way that music is made and heard. In addition to shedding new light on such legends as Wells, Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Charley Pride, it traces more recent shifts in gender politics through the performances of such contemporary luminaries as Swift, Gretchen Wilson, and Blake Shelton. The book also explores the intersections of gender, race, class, and nationality in a host of less expected contexts, including the prisons of WWII-era Texas, where the members of the Goree All-Girl String Band became the unlikeliest of radio stars; the studios and offices of Plantation Records, where Jeannie C. Riley and Linda Martell challenged the social hierarchies of a changing South in the 1960s; and the burgeoning cities of present-day Brazil, where college country has become one way of negotiating masculinity in an age of economic and social instability. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pecknold, Diane: - Diane Pecknold is an associate professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Louisville.McCusker, Kristine M.: - Kristine M. McCusker is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. |