The honky tonk on the left : progressive thought in country music /
Progressive thought in country music
edited by Mark Allan Jackson.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (vi, 308 pages).
- American Popular Music. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. Richard Nixon, Johnny Cash, and the political soul of country music / The N.R.A. blues : commercial country music and the New Deal / Senator Glen H. Taylor : radio's utopian singing cowboy / Weeping and flamboyant men : Webb Pierce and the campy theatrics of country music / Stand up to your man : the working-class feminism of Loretta Lynn / "I'm the other one" : O.B. McClinton and the racial politics of country music in the 1970s / "I'm a radical for real" : an oral history of country music's original outlaw, Steve Young / "Them's my kind of people" : cross-marginal solidarity in country music of the long seventies / Man against machine : Garth Brooks as player and provocateur / "Leave country music to white folk"? : narratives from contemporary African-American country artists on race and music / Reading hick-hop : the shotgun marriage of hip-hop and country music / Alternative country music and the American midwest as industrial wasteland / The politics of covers : Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, and the American recordings / Mark Allan Jackson -- Gregory N. Reish -- Peter La Chapelle -- Stephanie Vander Wel -- Mark Allan Jackson -- Charles L. Hughes -- Ted Olson -- Nadine Hubbs -- Stephanie Shonekan -- Stephen A. King and P. Renee Foster -- Tressie McMillan Cottom -- Travis D. Stimeling -- Jonathan Silverman.
9781613765760 9781613765777
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Country music--Political aspects. Progressivism (United States politics) Country music--History and criticism.