Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls - Women''s Country Music, 1930-1960

Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Vander Wel is an associate professor of music at the University at Buffalo. Klappentext "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"--

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Vander Wel
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780252043086
• ISBN: 978-0-252-04308-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Music in American Life
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries