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A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music
Diane Pecknold and Kristine M. McCuskerThis interdisciplinary collection of essays is the first book-length effort to examine how gender conventions, both masculine and feminine, have structured the creation and marketing of country music. The essays explore the uses of gender in creating the personas of stars as diverse as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Shania Twain. The authors also examine how deeply conventions have influenced the institutions and everyday experiences that give country music its image: the popular and fan press, the country music industry in Nashville, and the line dance crazes that created the dance hall boom of the 1990s.
From Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue," from Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" to Loretta Lynn's ode to birth control, "The Pill," A Boy Named Sue demonstrates the role gender played in the development of country music and its current prominence.
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Contents
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Foreword: Muddying the Clear Water: The Dubious Transparency of Country Music
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Bibliography and Further Reading
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“Bury Me Beneath the Willow”: Linda Parker and Definitions of Tradition on the National Barn Dance, 1932–1935
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“Spade Doesn’t Look Exactly Starved”: Country Music and the Negotiation of Women’s Domesticity in Cold War Los Angeles
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Charline Arthur: The (Un)Making of a Honky-Tonk Star
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I Don’t Think Hank Done It That Way: Elvis, Country Music, and the Reconstruction of Southern Masculinity
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“I Wanna Play House”: Configurations of Masculinity in the Nashville Sound Era
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Patsy Cline’s Crossovers: Celebrity, Reputation, and Feminine Identity
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Dancing Together: The Rhythms of Gender in the Country Dance Hall
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Between Riot Grrrl and Quiet Girl: The New Women’s Movement in Country Music
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Going Back to the Old Mainstream No Depression, Robbie Fulks, and Alt.Country’s Muddied Waters
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Postlude
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Notes
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Contributors
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