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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde - Contributions by Pete Falconer; Howard Steve Goodson; Taylor Hagood; Douglas Harrison; Michael MacDonald; Clay Motley; Laura Pattillo; Blase Scarnati; June Skinner Sawyers; James Zborowski and Samantha Chri Klappentext Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their nation's religion, literature, and politics. Walking the line requires following strict codes, respecting territories, and, sometimes, yearning to break those bonds. This collection's essays explore how iconic country lyricists such as Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Steve Earle have tested and expanded such boundaries, challenging musical, social, and political conventions, often reevaluating what "country" means in country music. Songs are the children of songwriters and, though each song carries the songwriter's gene, each song-like each child-is an individual all its own. In this remarkable collection of essays, a group of writers examine songwriters and their songs; how they are born, nurtured and grow from a child to an independent adult. Walking the Line profiles songwriters and their offspring in a way that is intelligent, thoughtful, instructive, heart-felt, deep and long-lasting-just like a great song. -- Don Cusic, Belmont University Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCreditsIntroductionWalking the Line: The Dixie Chicks and the Making of Country LyricistsThomas Alan HolmesRoxanne HardeChapter 1"Nobody knows but me": Jimmie Rodgers and the Body PoliticTaylor HagoodChapter 2Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the WestThomas Alan HolmesChapter 3"Help your brother along the way": Hank Williams and the Humane TraditionHoward Steve GoodsonChapter 4JC: Johnny Cash and FaithThomas Alan HolmesChapter 5Religious Doctrine in the mid-1970s to 1980s Country Music Concept Albums of Willie NelsonBlase S. ScarnatiChapter 6Grace to Catch a Falling Soul: Country, Gospel, and Evangelical Populism in the Music of Dottie RamboDouglas HarrisonChapter 7"Here's the story of my life; listen and I'll tell it twice": The Appalachian Autobiography of Loretta LynnLaura Grace PattilloChapter 8"Branded" Man: Merle Haggard's Romance of the OutlierThomas Alan HolmesChapter 9Townes van Zandt: "Now here's what this story's told."Pete Falconer and James ZborowskiChapter 10Wildness, Eschatology, and Enclosure in the Songs of Townes Van ZandtMichael B. MacDonaldChapter 11"Where it counts I'm real": The Complexities of Dolly Parton's Feminist VoiceSamantha ChristensenChapter 12"Sin City": Gram Parsons and the "Christ-Haunted South" Clay MotleyChapter 13Weeping Willows and Long Black Veils: The Country Roots of Rosanne Cash, from Scotland to TennesseeJune Skinner SawyersChapter 14"They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway": Steve Earle's American BoysRoxanne HardeIndexAbout the Contributors...
