Natural acts : gender, race, and rusticity in country music /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fox, Pamela, 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]
Series:	Class, culture.
Subjects:	Country music > History and criticism. Women country musicians > United States. Blackface entertainers > United States. Sex role in music.

Table of Contents:

Blacking up and dressing down : unmasking country music authenticity
Reluctant hillbillies : rube and blackface performance in the barn dance era
"After dark" : honky-tonk music, postwar modernity, and the masculinization of country identity
Coal miner's daughters : women (re)write authenticity in the country music autobiography
Revivals, survivals, and the future of authenticity : alternative country's reclamation of rusticity
Country girls, "unglamorous" mothers, and redneck women : the refeminization of authenticity in recent mainstream country.