Author:
Fox, Pamela, 1958-
Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
Description269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Blacking up and dressing down : unmasking country music authenticity -- Reluctant hillbillies : rube and blackface performance in the barn dance era -- "After dark" : honky-tonk music, postwar modernity, and the masculinization of country identity -- Coal miner's daughters : women (re)write authenticity in the country music autobiography -- Revivals, survivals, and the future of authenticity : alternative country's reclamation of rusticity -- Country girls, "unglamorous" mothers, and redneck women : the refeminization of authenticity in recent mainstream country.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
