Country Music Culture
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Country Music Culture
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Author : Curtis W. Ellison
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1995
Country Music Culture written by Curtis W. Ellison and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Country music categories.
A social history of country music from the 1920s to the present, discussing such artists as Patsy Cline, Grandpa Jones, Dolly Parton, and Garth Brooks.
Manifestations Of Collective Identity In Country Music Cultural Regional National
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Author : Stephanie Schäfer
language : en
Publisher: diplom.de
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Manifestations Of Collective Identity In Country Music Cultural Regional National written by Stephanie Schäfer and has been published by diplom.de this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Music categories.
Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: All American music reflects the landscape from which it springs and as that landscape changes, chewed up by the developments and industry and environmental disasters, as the air we heave in and out of our lungs is filled with new particles, as the water we drink gets its fluoride levels regulated and mineral content tweaked, it makes perfect sense that American music becomes slicker, more machinated, less like reality. We are all subject to our environs, fashioned and chiseled and sanded into shapes We have highways for arteries and clouds for brains and sticks for bones, The sounds we make are Americana. As one of the first musical expressions of the United States, country music represents the values and ideals on which the nation was founded. Country music can be seen as the epitome of the American Dream. It has its origins in the 19th century, when cowboys were working in the fields and riding through the lonely prairie, an image that has been romanticized by numerous Hollywood movies. This thesis focuses on country music as a genre as well as the identity which it represents and by which audience and performers are linked. Country music can be regarded as the music of Southern working class Americans. Since before the Civil War, the South has always been looked down upon as being primitive, simple-minded, and extremely religious. Having its roots in the South, country music has had to face substantial criticism in terms of unsophistication and over-sentimentalization. Due to a shift in national economic power, the United States have become increasingly Southernized, both culturally and musically. Southern culture and identity have become desirable. This phenomenon allowed country music to shed its dubious reputation and gain popularity across the country. This paper will shine a light on the American South as a cultural region that has more to offer than what meets the eye. Southern working class culture and its core values are going to be described and put in context with country music as a form of cultural expression. Central themes in American country music are family, love, heartbreak, work, friends, religion, and patriotism. Characteristic for the country music genre are its narrative structures, which by telling a story, enhance its ability to form a collective identity as well as a connection between the narrator, the performer, and the audience. However, country musicians are not solely messengers of the [...]
High Lonesome
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Author : Cecelia Tichi
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1994
High Lonesome written by Cecelia Tichi and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
A close-up look at country music argues that it has become a national art form, reflecting the same themes that have characterized American art and literature over three centuries
Country Music As Reflection On The American Culture
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Author : Juliane Hanka
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-11
Country Music As Reflection On The American Culture written by Juliane Hanka and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, Dresden Technical University (Unstitut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Readings in North American Cultural Studies, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In my term paper I will examine the question "Why is Country Music in America so popular?" Therefore, I will concentrate on the development of country music from traditional folk music to commercial music. I will reflect on the influences of the immigrants who entered the USA to build a brave new world, different to the old wo rld of Europe, which they assumed to be overpopulated and morally corrupt. On the basis of several selected books and articles, like those of Bill Malone, Seymor Martin Lipset and Rachel Rubin, I will emphasize the meaning of the most traditional music of America. Analyzing changes in the musical development, I will explain them as a consequence of the country's changing social circumstances by using the example of the Bakersfield movement in the 1930s. I will furthermore outline the most important facts and events regarding the music, including the life and work of Merle Haggard, who perfectly represented the theme of nostalgia in country music. At the end, I will emphasize the commercial aspect of country music, its Western image and the high efficiency of the Nashville music publishing industry.
Old Roots New Routes
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Author : Pamela Fox
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2008
Old Roots New Routes written by Pamela Fox and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Music categories.
An in-depth look at the influences, meaning, and identity of this contemporary music form
Whose Country Music
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Author : Paula J. Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12
Whose Country Music written by Paula J. Bishop and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12 with Music categories.
Questions and challenges the systems of gatekeeping that have restricted participation in twenty-first century country music culture.
Real Country
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Author : Aaron A. Fox
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-06
Real Country written by Aaron A. Fox and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-06 with Music categories.
In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music, and friends. In Real Country, he provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of the community and its music. Showing that country music is deeply embedded in the textures of working-class life, Fox argues that it is the cultural and intellectual property of working-class people and not only of the Nashville-based music industry or the stars whose lives figure so prominently in popular and scholarly writing about the genre. Fox spent hundreds of hours observing, recording, and participating in talk and music-making in homes, beer joints, and garage jam sessions. He renders the everyday life of Lockhart’s working-class community in detail, right down to the ice cold beer, the battered guitars, and the technical skills of such local musical legends as Randy Meyer and Larry “Hoppy” Hopkins. Throughout, Fox focuses on the human voice. His analyses of conversations, interviews, songs, and vocal techniques show how feeling and experience are expressed, and how local understandings of place, memory, musical aesthetics, working-class social history, race, and gender are shared. In Real Country, working-class Texans re-imagine their past and give voice to the struggles and satisfactions of their lives in the present through music.
Wrong S What I Do Best
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Author : Barbara Ching
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
Wrong S What I Do Best written by Barbara Ching and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Music categories.
Annotation This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk. With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers.
Soul Country And The Usa
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Author : S. Shonekan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-04
Soul Country And The Usa written by S. Shonekan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Music categories.
Soul music and country music propel American popular culture. Using ethnomusicological tools, Shonekan examines their socio-cultural influences and consequences: the perception of and resistance to hegemonic structures from within their respective constituencies, the definition of national identity, and the understanding of the 'American Dream.'
Rednecks Queers And Country Music
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Author : Nadine Hubbs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-03-22
Rednecks Queers And Country Music written by Nadine Hubbs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-22 with Music categories.
In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America’s most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics. In Hubbs’s view, the popular phrase “I’ll listen to anything but country” allows middle-class Americans to declare inclusive “omnivore” musical tastes with one crucial exclusion: country, a music linked to low-status whites. Throughout Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Hubbs dissects this gesture, examining how provincial white working people have emerged since the 1970s as the face of American bigotry, particularly homophobia, with country music their audible emblem. Bringing together the redneck and the queer, Hubbs challenges the conventional wisdom and historical amnesia that frame white working folk as a perpetual bigot class. With a powerful combination of music criticism, cultural critique, and sociological analysis of contemporary class formation, Nadine Hubbs zeroes in on flawed assumptions about how country music models and mirrors white working-class identities. She particularly shows how dismissive, politically loaded middle-class discourses devalue country’s manifestations of working-class culture, politics, and values, and render working-class acceptance of queerness invisible. Lucid, important, and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture.