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- catalog abstract ""Barbara Ching defines the features that make certain country songs and artists hard. She compares hard country music to high American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy. The artists sing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence. The songs are set apart from mainstream country music, which focuses on nostalgia, romance, and the patriotism of regular folk. Ching demonstrates that hard country's bad puns, sad stories, and unsavory characters are not as simple as we want them to be. In a style that demands both devotion and alienation from its fans, hard country ultimately seeks out the extreme and the objectionable, and in doing so, shows us the darker side of ourselves."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Hard country music and contemporary culture".
- catalog contributor b12182921.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Barbara Ching defines the features that make certain country songs and artists hard. She compares hard country music to high American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy. The artists sing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence. The songs are set apart from mainstream country music, which focuses on nostalgia, romance, and the patriotism of regular folk. Ching demonstrates that hard country's bad puns, sad stories, and unsavory characters are not as simple as we want them to be. In a style that demands both devotion and alienation from its fans, hard country ultimately seeks out the extreme and the objectionable, and in doing so, shows us the darker side of ourselves."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Learning the hard way. -- "Country 'til I die": Contemporary hard country and the incurable unease of class distinction. -- The Possum, the Hag, and the Rhinestone Cowboy: The burlesque abjection of the white male. -- The hard act to follow: Hank Williams and the legacy of hard country stardom. -- Drawing hard lines: Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Bakersfield sound. -- Dying hard: Hard country at the finish line?".
- catalog extent "ix, 186 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195108353".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "781.642 21".
- catalog subject "Country music History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "ML3524 .C54 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Learning the hard way. -- "Country 'til I die": Contemporary hard country and the incurable unease of class distinction. -- The Possum, the Hag, and the Rhinestone Cowboy: The burlesque abjection of the white male. -- The hard act to follow: Hank Williams and the legacy of hard country stardom. -- Drawing hard lines: Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Bakersfield sound. -- Dying hard: Hard country at the finish line?".
- catalog title "Hard country music and contemporary culture".
- catalog title "Wrong's what I do best : hard country music and contemporary culture / Barbara Ching.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".