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America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society (Chap. 21 "Women and Country Music") » Read Now
by Kenneth J. Bindas. 302 pgs.

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Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or...
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Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American history and society. In this interdisciplinary collection, topics concerning twentieth-century popular music are related to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the music.
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All That Glitters: Country Music in America (Includes discussion of women in country music in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by George H. Lewis. 340 pgs.

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...Images of Women and Men in Country Music 241...practice outside country music more commonly located in the singing of women than men...market in country music"...
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A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music » Read Now
by Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold. 232 pgs.

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An anthology that questions the roles gender plays in creating and marketing a great American musical form
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Classic Country: Legends of Country Music » Read Now
by Charles K. Wolfe. 334 pgs.

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Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.
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Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (Chap. 17 "Contradictions in the Country: Rituals of Sexual Subordination and Strength in Music Video") » Read Now
by Meta G. Carstarphen, Susan C. Zavoina. 304 pgs.

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This work explores, through case studies and critical analyses, how media depictions affect the social construction of gender, sexuality, and identity. Through a combination of historical and contemporary topics, scholars examine the stereotypical portrayal of women and men and the contexts within...
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This work explores, through case studies and critical analyses, how media depictions affect the social construction of gender, sexuality, and identity. Through a combination of historical and contemporary topics, scholars examine the stereotypical portrayal of women and men and the contexts within which these stereotypes are illustrated. The studies also discuss the sociopolitical implications of symbols and images associated with these gender representations. Concrete references to particular media support both the methodological and theoretical approaches of the different essays. These quantitative and qualitative studies expose the myriad ways in which the media intervenes in our perception of popular culture.
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Women in Country Music Videos, in ETC: A Review of General Semantics » Read Now
by Janelle Wilson. 14 pgs.

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...WOMEN IN COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEOS. by JANELLE WILSON...comment on the influence of video on women in country music: "Video saturation has revealed...depictions that women may...
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Country Music Video in Country's Year of the Woman, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Julie L. Andsager, Kimberly Roe. 14 pgs.

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...To explore how men and women are portrayed in country music videos, we obtained a...Altman, B. ( 1997 ). Women in music: Country just aint what it used...her voice: The...
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Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture ("'Mama He's Crazy': The Judds" begins on p. 89) » Read Now
by Helena Michie. 216 pgs.

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This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country...
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This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity and sisterhood to a more nuanced notion of women's relations with other women which may include such uncomfortable concepts as envy, jealousy, and competition as well as more institutionalized ideas of difference such as race and class. Chapters on literature are interspersed by "inter-chapters" on the choreography of sameness and difference among women in popular culture.
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Music as Persuasion: Refuting Hegemonic Masculinity in "He Thinks He'll Keep Her," in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now
by Deanna D. Sellnow. 19 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...evidenced in the country music circle, as...content. In fact, "almost...similar theme--women caught between...space" for women to develop...specifically, music can be...
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Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass ("Not Just Bluegrass 'Boys'" begins on p. 31) » Read Now
by Stephanie P. Ledgin. 182 pgs.

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With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this...
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With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this music in Homegrown Music, a lively, informative book that is perfect for newcomers and devoted fans, musicians, and non-musicians. Though recognized and embraced internationally, bluegrass is one of only two musical genres native to America and, like jazz, it boasts a colorful and lively history, one that is captured here in all its detail complete with candid interviews with such legends as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Covering such aspects of bluegrass as instrumentation, songs, the festival experience, and "parking lot picking," Homegrown Music also offers candid interviews with many celebrated bluegrass figures. An extensive up-to-the-minute resource guide of print,audio-visual, and Internet materials rounds out the volume. Enthusiasts of all ages will find much to discover and much to enjoy.
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The 'Country' in Contemporary Australian Women's Country Music: Gender, History, Narrative, in Journal of Australian Studies » Read Now
by Shirley Tucker. 7 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library