Contemporary rhetorical trends and tensions in women's country music /

"Country Singles" charts. Additionally, through the use of

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haynes, Julie Ann
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1994.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:"Country Singles" charts. Additionally, through the use of
Burke's cluster analysis is used to examine randomly selected
consistent. However, the songs and videos of the 1990s
country music. According to these sources, female country
During the 1990s, both music scholars and the popular media
enlightened women. To determine if such changes have
evolution of women's country music from 1952 to 1993. Kenneth
gender ideology criticism, the four most popular music videos
gender roles and instead are singing of empowered and
have claimed that a "new voice" is emerging in women's
highlight a tension between assertiveness and dependence, a
occurred in recent years, this work traces the rhetorical
of the 1990s sample are evaluated. The study revealed that
performers are shedding their conservative messages about
songs by women which reached number one on Billboard's
tension merely hinted at in the works from previous decades.
women's lyrical themes in country music have remained fairly
Item Description:"Major subject: Speech Communication".
Vita.
Physical Description:vii, 118 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.