Don't get above your raisin' : country music and the southern working class

Bill C. Malone

Combining a high-spirited history of country music's roots with vivid portraits of its primary performers, "Don't Get above Your Raisin'" examines the close relationship between "America's truest music" and the working-class culture that has constituted its principal source, nurtured its development, and provided its most dedicated supporters. Widely recognized as country music's ranking senior authority, Bill C. Malone explores how the music's defining themes (home and family, religion, rambling, frolic, humor, and politics) have emerged out of the particularities of working people's day-to-day lives. He traces the many contradictory voices and messages of a music that simultaneously extols the virtues of home and the joys of rambling, the assurances of the Christian life and the ecstasies of hedonism, the strength of working-class life and the material lure of middle-class aspirations. The resulting tensions, Malone argues, are a major reason for the music's enduring appeal.

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書名 Don't get above your raisin' : country music and the southern working class
著作者等 Malone, Bill C.
シリーズ名 Music in American life
出版元 University of Illinois Press
刊行年月 2006
版表示 New ed
ページ数 xvi, 392 p., [16] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780252073663
NCID BA83402672
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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