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The honky tonk on the left : progressive thought in country music / edited by Mark Allan Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American Popular Music
- American Popular Music.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Progressivism (United States politics).
- Country music--History and criticism.
- Country music.
- Country music--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Massively popular for the past century, country music has often been associated with political and social conservatism.While such figures as George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ted Cruz have embraced and even laid claim to this musical genre over the years, country performers have long expressed bold and progressive positions on a variety of.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Richard Nixon, Johnny Cash, and the political soul of country music / Mark Allan Jackson
- The N.R.A. blues : commercial country music and the New Deal / Gregory N. Reish
- Senator Glen H. Taylor : radio's utopian singing cowboy / Peter La Chapelle
- Weeping and flamboyant men : Webb Pierce and the campy theatrics of country music / Stephanie Vander Wel
- Stand up to your man : the working-class feminism of Loretta Lynn / Mark Allan Jackson
- "I'm the other one" : O.B. McClinton and the racial politics of country music in the 1970s / Charles L. Hughes
- "I'm a radical for real" : an oral history of country music's original outlaw, Steve Young / Ted Olson
- "Them's my kind of people" : cross-marginal solidarity in country music of the long seventies / Nadine Hubbs
- Man against machine : Garth Brooks as player and provocateur / Stephanie Shonekan
- "Leave country music to white folk"? : narratives from contemporary African-American country artists on race and music / Stephen A. King and P. Renee Foster
- Reading hick-hop : the shotgun marriage of hip-hop and country music / Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Alternative country music and the American midwest as industrial wasteland / Travis D. Stimeling
- The politics of covers : Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, and the American recordings / Jonathan Silverman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781613765760
- 1613765762
- OCLC:
- 1011557484
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