Country boys and redneck women
Subtitle: new essays in gender and country music
By: edited by Diane Pecknold and Kristine M. McCusker
Series: American made music series; American made music series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781496804914; 9781496804921; 9781496805058
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Gender identity in music; Sex role in music; Country music; History and criticism; Femininity in popular culture; Women country musicians; Masculinity in popular culture; Country musicians
Other titles: New essays in gender and country music; Gender and country music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why "ladies love country boys" : gender, class, and economics in contemporary country music  -- Jocelyn R. Neal; title: "Hey! If I should grab ya" : "college country" and the ruralization of urban Brazil  -- Alexander S. Dent; title: Act naturally : Charley Pride, autobiography, and the "accidental career"  -- Matthew D. Sutton; title: Holding on to country : musical moorings for desired masculinities in Aboriginal Australia  -- êAse Ottosson; title: Taylor Swift's "pitch problem" and the place of adolescent girls in country music  -- Travis Stimeling; title: Gender and the Nashville songwriter : three songs by Victoria Banks  -- Chris Wilson; title: As if they were going places : class and gender portrayals through country music in the Texas State Prison, 1938-1944  -- Caroline Gnagy; title: Negotiating gender, race, and class in post-civil rights country music : how Linda Martell and Jeannie C. Riley stormed the plantation  -- Diane Pecknold; title: Remarkable women and ordinary gals : performance of identity in songs by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton  -- Kate Heidemann; title: "Backwoods Barbie" : Dolly Parton's gender performance  -- Leigh H. Edwards; title: Kitty Wells, queen of denial  -- Georgia Christgau; title: Gender deviance and class rebellion in "Redneck woman" -- Nadine Hubbs.