num_pages: 186
description: White Soul examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans.Country music gives voice to an economically battered subculture of hard-living and hard-working people who find self-expression in the music of honky-tonks and heartaches. It celebrates the "wild side of life" as a form of populist anarchism and escapist festivity. This unusual medley of sociology, theology, and country music history is also a compelling critique of the elitism of "good taste" in the dominant culture.Tex Sample challenges the church to reach out to working-class people, who have often been ignored and demeaned by churches held captive to the tastes and lifestyles of the upper middle class.
language: English
title: White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans
titlecomplete: White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans
genres: Music
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Abingdon Press