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White soul : country music, the Church, and working Americans / Tex Sample.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3524 .S26 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sample, Tex.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country music--Social aspects.
- Country music.
- Music--Social aspects--United States.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Working class white people.
- United States.
- Working class white people--United States.
- Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States.
- Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Abingdon Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- White Soul examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans. Country music gives voice to an economically battered subculture of hard-living and hard-working people who find self-expression in the music of honky-tonks and heartaches. It celebrates the "wild side of life" as a form of populist anarchism and escapist festivity. This unusual medley of sociology, theology, and country music history is also a compelling critique of the elitism of "good taste" in the dominant culture. Tex Sample challenges the church to reach out to working-class people, who have often been ignored and demeaned by churches held captive to the tastes and lifestyles of the upper middle class.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0687032938
- OCLC:
- 34617663
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