Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls
Music in American Life

Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls

Women's Country Music, 1930-1960

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A PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman hillbilly, singing cowgirl, and honky-tonk angel.

Stephanie Vander Wel 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, she 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.

GENRE
Kunst en amusement
UITGEGEVEN
2020
23 maart
TAAL
EN
Engels
LENGTE
256
Pagina's
UITGEVER
University of Illinois Press
GROOTTE
3,3
MB

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