Natural acts : gender, race, and rusticity in country music / Pamela Fox.
- Title
- Natural acts : gender, race, and rusticity in country music / Pamela Fox.
- Published by
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book explores the ways that country musicians--particularly women artists--have established a "natural" country identity. It focuses on five revealing moments in country performance : blackface comedy during country music's "Golden Age" of pre-1945 radio and stage programming; the minstrel's "rube" or hillbilly equivalent in the same period; postwar honky-tonk music and culture; the country star memoir or autobiography of the '80s and '90s; and the recent roots phenomenon known as alt.country.
- Series statement
- Class, culture
- Uniform title
- Class, culture
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- Blacking up and dressing down : unmasking country music authenticity -- Reluctant hillbillies : rube and blackface performance in the barn dance era -- "After dark" : honky-tonk music, postwar modernity, and the masculinization of country identity -- Coal miner's daughters : women (re)write authenticity in the country music autobiography -- Revivals, survivals, and the future of authenticity : alternative country's reclamation of rusticity -- Country girls, "unglamorous" mothers, and redneck women : the refeminization of authenticity in recent mainstream country.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain