Natural acts
Subtitle: gender, race, and rusticity in country music
By: Pamela Fox.
Series: Class: culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472070688; 9780472050680
Subjects: Country music -- History and criticism; Women country musicians -- United States; Blackface entertainers -- United States; Sex role in music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Blacking up and dressing down : unmasking country music authenticity; title: Reluctant hillbillies : rube and blackface performance in the barn dance era; title: "After dark" : honky-tonk music, postwar modernity, and the masculinization of country identity; title: Coal miner's daughters : women (re)write authenticity in the country music autobiography; title: Revivals, survivals, and the future of authenticity : alternative country's reclamation of rusticity; title: Coda. Country girls, "unglamorous" mothers, and redneck women : the refeminization of authenticity in recent mainstream country.