Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Reading country music : steel guitars, opry stars, and honky-tonk bars
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Cecelia Tichi, editor
- Included Title
-
- South Atlantic quarterly
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
-
- 408 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822321682, 0822321688, 9780822321569, 0822321564
- OCLC
- ocm38043048
- Includes essays previously published in v. 94, no. 1 (1995) of the South Atlantic quarterly.
- Discography: pages [389]-394.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Cecelia Tichi -- Sing me a song about ramblin' man: visions and revisions of Hank Williams in country music / Christopher Metress -- 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 pale maiden: gender, color, and class in Stephen Foster's "Hard times" / Amy Schrager Lang