Contributor
Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Description408 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes essays previously published in v. 94, no. 1 (1995) of the South Atlantic Quarterly.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Sing me a song about ramblin' man: visions and revisions of Hank Williams in country music / Christopher Mtress. - Blue moon of Kentucky rising over the mystery train: the complex construction of country music / David Sanjek. - Bloody daggers and lonesome graveyards: the gothic and country music / Teresa Goddu. - A musical legacy, a way of life: a photo essay / Charmaine Lanham. - Commercial (and/or?) folk: the bluegrass industry and bluegrass traditions / Mark Fenster. - Mountains of contradictions: gender, class, and region in the star image of Dolly Parton / Pamela Wilson. - Keeping faith: evangelical performance in country music / Curtis W. Ellison. - Girls with guitars--and fringe and sequins and rhinestones, silk, lace, and leather / Mary A. Bufwack. - Event songs / Charles K. Wolfe. - Country green: the money in country music / Don Cusic. - Country music and the contemporary composer: the case of Paul Martin Zonn. - Michael Kurek and Cecelia Tichi. - "My name is Sue! How do you do?" : Johnny Cash as lesbian icon / Teresa Ortega. - The dialectic of hard-core and soft-shell country music / Richard A. Peterson. - The sad twang of mountain voices: Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music / Vivien Green Fryd. - Mecca for the country music scholar / Ronnie Pugh. - country music, seriously: an interview with Bill C. Malone / Cecelia Tichi. - Reading the row / Christine Kreyling. - The metric makings of a country hit / Jocelyn Neal. - The voice of woe: Willie Nelson and evangelical spirituality / T. Walter Herbert. - I'll reap my harvest in heaven: Fred Rose's acquaintance with country music / John W. Rumble. - Jim Crow and the pail maiden: gender, color, and class in Stephen Foster's Hard Times / Amy Schrager Lang.
Bibliography Note:Discography: p. [389]-394.
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