Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Sing Me a Song about Ramblin' Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music 4
6. Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising Over the Mystery Train: The Complex Construction of Country Music 22
7. Bloody Daggers and lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music 45
8. A Musical legacy, A Way of life: A Photo Essay 65
9. Commercial (and/or?) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and Bluegrass Traditions 74
10. Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton 98
11. Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music 121
12. Girls with Guitars-and Fringe and Sequins and Rhinestones, Silk, lace, and leather 153
13. Event Songs 188
14. Country Green: The Money in Country Music 200
15. Country Music and the Contemporary Composer: The Case of Paul Martin Zonn 209
16. "My name is Sue! How do you do?": Johnny Cash as Lesbian Icon 222
17. The Dialectic of Hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country Music 234
18. 'The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices": Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music 256
19. Mecca for the Country Music Scholar 286
20. Country Music, Seriously: An Interview with Bill C. Malone 290
21. Reading the Row 307
22. The Metric Makings of a Country Hit 322
23. "The Voice of Woe": Willie Nelson and Evangelical Spirituality 338
24. "I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven": Fred Rose's Acquaintance with Country Music 350
25. Jim Crow and the Pale Maiden: Gender, Color, and Class in Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" 378
26. Selected Discography 389
27. Notes on Contributors 395
28. Index 399