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Informationen zum Autor Peter La Chapelle is Assistant Professor of History at Nevada State College in Henderson! Nevada. Klappentext " Proud to be an Okie is a fresh! well-researched! wonderfully insightful! and imaginative book. Throughout! La Chapelle's keen attention to shifting geographies and urban and suburban spaces is one of the work's real strengths. Another strength is the book's focus on dress! ethnicity! and the manufacturing of style. When all of these angles and insights are pulled together! La Chapelle delivers a fascinating rendering of Okie life and American culture."-Bryant Simon! author of Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America Zusammenfassung Presents the country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. This work explores how migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. BIG CITY WAYS 1. At the Crossroads of Whiteness: Antimigrant Activism! Eugenics! and Popular Culture 2. Refugees: Woody Guthrie! "Lost Angeles!" and the Radicalization of Migrant Identity 3. Rhythm Kings and Riveter Queens: Race! Gender! and the Eclectic Populism of Wartime Western Swing PART II. RHINESTONES AND RANCH HOMES 4. Ballads for the Crabgrass Frontier: Suburbanization! Whiteness! and the Unmaking of Okie Musical Ethnicity 5. Playing Second Fiddle No More? Country Music! Domesticity! and the Women's Movement 6. Fightin' Sides: "Okie from Muskogee!" Conservative Populism! and the Uses of Migrant Identity Reprise: Dueling Populisms: The Okie Legacy in National and Regional Country Music Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...
