A boy named Sue : gender and country music /
From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Prop...
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University Press of Mississippi,
©2004.
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| Series: | American made music series.
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Table of Contents:
- "Bury me beneath the willow" : Linda Parker and definitions of tradition on the National Barn Dance, 1932-1935 / Kristine M. McCusker
- "Spade doesn't look exactly starved" : country music and the negotiation of women's domesticity in Cold War Los Angeles / Peter La Chapelle
- Charline Arthur : the (un)making of a honky-tonk star / Emily C. Neely
- I don't think Hank done it that way : Elvis, country music, and the reconstruction of southern masculinity / Michael Bertrand
- "I wanna play house" : configurations of masculinity in the Nashville sound era / Diane Pecknold
- Patsy Cline's crossovers : celebrity, reputation, and feminine identity / Joli Jensen
- Dancing together : the rhythms of gender in the country dance hall / Jocelyn R. Neal
- Between riot grrrl and quiet girl : the new women's movement in country music / Beverly Keel
- Going back to the old mainstream : No depression, Robbie Fulks, and Alt. country's muddied waters / Barbara Ching
- Postlude / Charles Wolfe.
