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Why Tammy Wynette matters / Steacy Easton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Easton, Steacy, author.
- Series:
- Music matters.
- Music matters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country music--History and criticism.
- Country music.
- Country musicians--United States--Biography.
- Country musicians.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- How Tammy Wynette channeled the conflicts of her life into her music and performance. With hits such as “Stand By Your Man” and “Golden Ring,” Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette’s music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art. Wynette created a persona of high femininity to match the themes she sang about—fawning devotion, redemption in heterosexual romance, the heartbreak of loneliness. Behind the scenes, her life was marked by persistent class anxieties; despite wealth and fame, she kept her beautician’s license. Easton argues that the struggle to meet expectations of southernness, womanhood, and southern womanhood, finds subtle expression in Wynette’s performance of “Apartment #9”—and it’s because of these vocal subtleties that it came to be called the saddest song ever written. Wynette similarly took on elements of camp and political critique in her artistry, demonstrating an underappreciated genius. Why Tammy Wynette Matters reveals a musician who doubled back on herself, her façade of earnestness cracked by a melodrama that weaponized femininity and upended feminist expectations, while scoring twenty number-one hits.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Domesticity
- High Femme Armor
- Soft Politics
- Pain
- Melodrama
- Sex
- Fame.
- Tradition
- Reprieve
- Camp
- Funeral
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781477327500
- OCLC:
- 1378769324
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