Hillbilly maidens, okies, and cowgirls : women's country music, 1930-1960

Title
  1. Hillbilly maidens, okies, and cowgirls : women's country music, 1930-1960 / Stephanie Vander Wel.
Published by
  1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Vander Wel, Stephanie, 1969-

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Description
  1. xi, 250 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "Looks at the careers of artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music's golden age. Analyzing recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television, Stephanie Vander Wel connects performances to real and imagined places and examines how the music sparked new ways for women listeners to imagine the open range, the honky-tonk, and the home. The music also captured the tensions felt by women facing geographic disruption and economic uncertainty. While classic songs and heartfelt performances might ease anxieties, the subject matter underlined women's ambivalent relationships to industrialism, middle-class security, and established notions of femininity"--
Series statement
  1. Music in American life
Uniform title
  1. Music in American life.
Subject
  1. Lulu Belle, 1913-1999
  2. Maddox, Rose
  3. Wells, Kitty
  4. Montana, Patsy
  5. WLS (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
  6. To 1999
  7. Country music > To 1951 > History and criticism
  8. Country music > 1951-1960 > History and criticism
  9. Women country musicians > United States
  10. Radio and music > United States > History > 20th century
  11. Country music
  12. Radio and music
  13. Women country musicians
  14. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. WLS and the National Barn Dance. Early country music : The crossing of musical hierarchies on Chicago's WLS ; The rural masquerades of gender : Lulu Belle and her radio audience ; Gendering the musical west : Patsy Montana's cowgirl Songs of tomboy glamour -- California country music. Carolina cotton : Yodeling virtuosity and theatricality in California country music ; Rose Maddox : Roadhouse singing and hillbilly theatrics -- Nashville's honky-tonk and country music industry. Voices of angels : Kitty Wells and the emergence of women's honky-tonk ; Domestic respectability : The marketing of honky-tonk performers -- Conclusion : Country vocalities and gendered theatrics.
Call number
  1. JNE 21-107
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Author
  1. Vander Wel, Stephanie, 1969- author.
Title
  1. Hillbilly maidens, okies, and cowgirls : women's country music, 1930-1960 / Stephanie Vander Wel.
Publisher
  1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Music in American life
  2. Music in American life.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Chronological term
  1. To 1999
Other form:
  1. Online version: Vander Wel, Stephanie, 1969- Hillbilly maidens, okies, and cowgirls Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020. 9780252051944 (DLC) 2019052254
LCCN
  1. 2019052253
ISBN
  1. 9780252043086 hardcover
  2. 0252043081 hardcover
  3. 9780252084959 paperback
  4. 0252084950 paperback
Research call number
  1. JNE 21-107
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