The Women of Country Music: A Reader

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Charles K. Wolfe, James E. Akenson
University Press of Kentucky, 17 окт. 2014 г. - Всего страниц: 240

Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920s career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50s honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride's Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more.

 

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A Vaudeville Valedictory
1
The Strange Case of Roba Stanley Countrys First Woman Recording Star
18
First Lady of Banjo Roni Stoneman
30
The Country of Bronwen Wallace and Emmylou Harris
46
Rose Lee Maphis and Working on Barn Dance Radio 19301960
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Margaret Lewis Warwick and the Louisiana Hayride
75
John Lair and the Women o fthe Barn Dance
88
Faith Hill Country Musicand Reflexive Identity
109
The Cow Thats Ugly Has the Sweetest Milk
131
A Conversation with the Texana Dames
148
Canadian Women in Country Music
161
Australian Women and Country Music
186
Teaching About Women in Country Music
202
Contributors
227
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Charles K. Wolfe, professor of English and folklore at Middle Tennessee State University, is the author of numerous books on music. James E. Akenson, professor of curriculum and instruction at Tennessee Technological University, is the founder of the international Country Music Conference.

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