Natural acts : gender, race, and rusticity in country music / Pamela Fox.

Title
  1. Natural acts : gender, race, and rusticity in country music / Pamela Fox.
Published by
  1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
Author
  1. Fox, Pamela, 1958-

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Description
  1. 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Class, culture
Uniform title
  1. Class, culture
Subject
  1. Country music > History and criticism
  2. Women country musicians > United States
  3. Blackface entertainers > United States
  4. Sex role in music
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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