Old roots and new routes
Subtitle: the cultural politics of alt. country music
By: edited by Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching.
Contributors: Fox, Pamela, 1958-; Ching, Barbara, 1958-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780472070534; 9780472050536
Subjects: Alternative country music -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of being ironic : toward a theory and critique of alt. country music / Barbara Ching and Pamela Fox; title: Selling out or buying in? : alt. country's cultural politics of commercialism / Diane Pecknold; title: Growing up and out of alt. country : on Gen X, wearing vintage, and Neko Case / Jon Smith; title: Beyond Austin's city limits : Justin Treviño and the boundaries of "alternative" country / Aaron A. Fox; title: Meeting in the marketplace : a taste for romance in Songcatcher and O Brother, Where art thou? / Barbara Ching; title: Time as "revelator" : alt. country women's performance of the past / Pamela Fox; title: "Regressive country" : the voice of Gram Parsons / Olivia Carter Mather; title: Old time punk / Aaron Smithers; title: "The burden is passed on" : Son Volt, tradition, and authenticity / Stevie Simkin; title: New alternatives? : top 40 "outlaws" Gretchen Wilson, Miranda Lambert, and the Dixie Chicks / Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching; title: Alt. country chronology / Kelly Burchfield and Barbara Ching.