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Proud to be an Okie : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / Peter La Chapelle.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Chapelle, Peter.
- Series:
- American crossroads ; 22.
- American crossroads ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country music--California--History and criticism.
- Country music.
- Music--Political aspects.
- Music.
- Popular culture--California, Southern--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930's to the early 1970's. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the late 1960's. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Big City Ways
- Part 2. Rhinestones and Ranch Homes
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- "Chapters 1 and 5 are revised versions of essays previously published in the collected volumes Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850/2000, edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda Long (Nevada Humanities Committee, 2001), and A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America 28 (2001): pp. 3/12."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786611752538
- 9781281752536
- 1281752533
- 9780520940000
- 0520940008
- 9781429467940
- 1429467940
- 9780520904026
- 0520904028
- OCLC:
- 437178345
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