Country music : a cultural and stylistic history

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    • Jocelyn R. Neal

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Country music : a cultural and stylistic history

Jocelyn R. Neal

Oxford University Press, [2019]

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-534) and index

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内容説明

Written by an experienced teacher and renowned scholar of the genre, Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History, Second Edition, offers a chronological narrative that explains country music's origins, development, and meaning from the first commercial recordings of the 1920s up to the present. It highlights significant performers, songs, and institutions throughout the history of country music. It also considers key social, political, and musical issues that span many decades of evolution within the genre.

目次

Contents Preface Introduction: Heading into the Country Country as Genre Definition of Country Is It Real? Issues of Authenticity in Country Music Goals and Themes Cultural Identity Authenticity The "Otherness" of Country Situating a Performer How to Listen Getting Started Part I: The Early Years (1920s and 1930s) Overview Chapter 1: The Birth of Country Music Musical Sources Listening Guide: "O Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie" New Technologies: Records and Radio Artist Profile: Fiddlin' John Carson Audiences The Business of Music The Performers Artist Profile: DeFord Bailey Listening Guide: "Hallelujah Side" Listening Guide: "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" Summary Essay (Culture): Radio Barn Dances Essay (Identity): Women in Early Country Music Essay (Musical Style): Hillbilly Entertainers Listen Side-By-Side: "Sourwood Mountain" Chapter 2: National Stars on the Horizon Role of the Producer The Big Bang Artist Profile: The Carter Family and Their Legacy Listening Guide: "Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)" Artist Profile: Jimmie Rodgers Listening Guide: "Blue Yodel No. 9" The Long-Term Star Listening Guide: "The Great Speckled Bird" Country Music on the National Stage Essay (Music Business): Copyright Essay (Technology): Making Records in the 1920s Essay (Identity): Race in Early Country Music Essay (Culture): Cover Songs Listen Side-By-Side: "Blue Yodel" Chapter 3: New Traditions, Cowboys, and Jazz Barn Dance Radio Shows, Stars, and the Brother Acts Western Swing Artist Profile: Bob Wills Listening Guide: "New San Antonio Rose" Singing Cowboy Listening Guide: "Back in the Saddle Again" Artist Profile: Sons of the Pioneers Listening Guide: "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" Taking Stock on the Brink of World War II Essay (Musical Style): Innovation in Western Swing Essay (Musical Style): Singing Cowboys Essay (Musical Style): Brother Acts Essay (Music Business): Sponsorship Listen Side-By-Side: "Wabash Blues" Part II: World War II and After: Nationalism and Country Music (1940s and 1950s) Overview Chapter 4: Honky-Tonk and Rockabilly Revolution New Radio Stars Country Music Culture in the Postwar Years Honky-Tonk Roots The Louisiana Hayride Honky-Tonk Heyday Artist Profile: Hank Williams Listening Guide: "Your Cheatin' Heart" The Honky-Tonk Image Honky-Tonk Angels Listening Guide: "(Pay Me) Alimony" Answer Songs A Broader Soundscape The Impact of Honky-Tonk A New Era Setting the Stage: The Emergence of Rock 'n' Roll Memphis Rockabilly and Sun Records Elvis Presley Makes a Record Rockabilly as Part of Country Music Artist Profile: Johnny Cash Listening Guide: "Folsom Prison Blues" Rockabilly Women Rock 'n' Roll and Country Connections beyond Sun Coming to an End Essay (Musical Style): Honky-Tonk Essay (Culture): Cajun Country Essay (Music Business): Forces behind the Scenes Essay (Musical Style): Rockabilly Listen Side-By-Side: "In the Jailhouse Now" Chapter 5: The Birth of Bluegrass The Origins of Bluegrass Artist Profile: Bill Monroe Listening Guide: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" First-Generation Bands Artist Profile: Earl Scruggs Listening Guide: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Bluegrass Meets Folk From Bluegrass and Folk to Commercial Country Listening Guide: "Rocky Top" Bluegrass as Symbol and Soundtrack The Relationship between Bluegrass and Country Essay (Musical Style): Bluegrass Essay (Identity): Women in Bluegrass Essay (Culture): Bluegrass Festivals Listen Side-By-Side: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Listen Side-By-Side: "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)" Chapter 6: The Nashville Sound and Musical Innovation The Business behind the Nashville Sound Artist Profile: Chet Atkins The Musical Scene for the Nashville Sound Country Teen Crooners Conceiving the Nashville Sound The Stars Artist Profile: Patsy Cline Listening Guide: "Faded Love" Listening Guide: "He'll Have to Go" The Songs Listening Guide: "El Paso" Instrumentals The Second Wave of Nashville Sound Artists Making Sense of the Nashville Sound Essay (Music Business): The Country Music Association Essay (Musical Style): The Nashville Sound Essay (Songwriting): A Professional Writer's Town Listen Side-By-Side: "Take Me In Your Arms and Hold Me" Part III: Coast to Coast: Outsiders, Outlaws, and Tradition (1960s and 1970s) Overview Chapter 7: California Country and Country Rock Out in Bakersfield Listening Guide: "Mama Tried" Artist Profile: Merle Haggard Artist Profile: Buck Owens Listening Guide: "Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" Bluegrass Meets Folk-Rock Country Rock Country Rock Branches Out Listening Guide: "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" California Country Essay (Musical Style): Bakersfield Sound Essay (History): "Okie from Muskogee" and Country Music Politics Essay (Culture): The Byrds on the Opry Listen Side-By-Side: "I've Just Seen a Face" Chapter 8: Classic Country Classic Country's Female Stars Listening Guide: "Coal Miner's Daughter" Artist Profile: Dolly Parton Classic Country's Male Stars Artist Profile: George Jones Listening Guide: "He Stopped Loving Her Today" Listening Guide: "You've Never Been this Far Before" Breaking Barriers The Duets and Ensembles TV and Country Music Looking Back on Classic Country Essay (Songwriting): Truckin' Songs and the Open Road Essay (Musical Style): Classic Country Essay (Identity): Gender in Classic Country Essay (Songwriting): Story Songs Essay (Culture): The Opry Moves Listen Side-By-Side: "Muleskinner Blues" Chapter 9: Outlaw Country and Southern Rock Rebellion The Emergence of Outlaw Country Artist Profile: Willie Nelson Outlaw Country Runs Its Course Listening Guide: "Luckenback, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" Southern Rock and the Country Audience Listening Guide: "Sweet Home Alabama" Listening Guide: "The South's Gonna Do It" Artist Profile: Charlie Daniels Essay (Musical Style): Outlaw Country Essay (Musical Style): Southern Rock Essay (Music Business): Behaving Like Outlaws Essay (Culture): Long-Haired Rednecks, Hippies, and Cosmic Cowboys Listen Side-By-Side: "Can I Sleep in Your Arms" Listen Side-By-Side: Red Headed Stranger Part IV: Expansion: Country Makes It Big-Time (1980s and 1990s) Overview Chapter 10: Urban Cowboys, Countrypolitan, and the Regan Era History and Rise of Crossover Country Pop Culture, the Cowboy, and the Country Boy Politics, Economics, and the Appeal of the Urban Cowboy New Media and Breaking Down Genre Borders Listening Guide: "Islands in the Stream" Listening Guide: "I Was Country (When Country Wasn't Cool)" The Stars and Songs of Urban Cowboy Artist Profile: Ronnie Milsap Artist Profile: Barbara Mandrell Listening Guide: "Love in the First Degree" The End of Urban Cowboy Essay (Musical Style): Countrypolitan Essay (Culture): Country Music on the Silver Screen Essay (Music Business): International Country Listen Side-By-Side: Country/Pop Comparisons Chapter 11: Neotraditionalists and Remaking the Past Countrypolitan Fades Neotraditionalist Philosophy Listening Guide: "All My Ex's Live in Texas" Early Practitioners Artist Profile: George Strait Listening Guide: "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)" Neotraditionalism Takes Root Artist Profile: Reba McEntire Listening Guide: "How Blue" Co-opted, Conservative, and Commercial Essay (Musical Style): Neotraditionalist Recordings Essay (Culture): Branson, Missouri, and Country Music Tourism Essay (Songwriting): Cover Songs Revisited Listen Side-By-Side: "Deep Water" Chapter 12: The Commercial Country Explosion The Class of 1989 and "New Country" Artist Profile: Garth Brooks Listening Guide: "Friends in Low Places" Themes in New Country Listening Guide: "Gone Country" Stylistic Pendulums and Country Pop Artist Profile: "Shania Twain" Listening Guide: "Any Man of Mine" The End of the 1990s Essay (Musical Style): New Country and Country Pop Essay (Culture): Line Dancing Essay (Songwriting): Songwriting and Sophistication Essay (History): Southernization and Soccer moms Listen Side-By-Side: Cowboy Songs Part V: Country Music Navigates Genre (1990s and 2000s) Overview Chapter 13: Alternative Country and Beyond Defining Alternative Country Alternative Country Origins Listening Guide: "No Depression" Artist Profile: Ryan Adams Alternative Country Coalesces A Broader Definition: Alternative Country as Musical Space Listening Guide: "Suppose Tonight Would Be Our Last" Americana Another Alternative: Bluegrass The Impact on Mainstream Country Artist Profile: Alison Krauss Changes in Commercial Country "Murder on Music Row:" The Turning Tide Essay (Musical Style): What Alt-Country Doesn't Sound Like Essay (Technology): The Internet Age Essay (Culture): The O Brother Phenomenon Listening Guide: "Man of Constant Sorrow" Essay (Culture): Gay Line Dancing Listen Side-By-Side: "Waltz Across Texas" Chapter 14: Redefining Country in a New Millennium Country Music in the Spotlight Artist Profile: Brad Paisley Listening Guide: "Whiskey Lullaby" Return of Roots and Rednecks Listening Guide: "RedneckWoman" Listening Guide: "Long Time Gone" Americana and Alternative? Pop Culture Lays Claim to Country Music Artist Profile: Carrie Underwood Reflecting and Projecting Meaning Essay (Culture): Dixie Chicks and Politics Essay (Identity): Race in Contemporary Country Essay (Technology): MP3s Please Listen Side-By-Side: A Woman's Voice Chapter 15: Breaking Borders The Past Is Alive and Well New Directions Nashville On Screen Artist Profile: Blake Shelton The Rise of Bro-Country Listening Guide: "Cruise" Promises Unfulfilled Listening Guide: "Girl Crush" Artist Profile: Miranda Lambert Listening Guide: "Tin Man" Crossover and Hip-Hop-ification Dodging Politics Dark Horse Surprises Through the Lenses Essay (Identity): Tomato-Gate and the Women of Country Essay (Musical Style): The Splintering of Country Essay (Identity): Who Listens to Country? Listen Side-By Side: "Tennessee Whiskey" Appendix A: Song Form Appendix B: Country Instruments Appendix C: Glossary Appendix D: Timeline Selected Bibliography

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