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• catalog abstract "Combining a high-spirited history of country music's roots with vivid portraits of its principal 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 principal source of the music's enduring appeal. Country musicians have often been people from undistinguished blue-collar backgrounds who have tried to make their way as entertainers in a society that has little respect for the working class. From this ambivalent position, they have voiced the sometimes contradictory values and longings of their culture while also attempting to fulfill the romantic expectations of outsiders. "For every Garth Brooks," Malone says, "there are a thousand country musicians who perform in local bars, taverns, and American Legion halls and who have never been able to give up their day jobs. These are musicians whose middle-class dreams are tempered by working-class realities." A powerful and honest expression of the hopes, longings, frailties, and failings of ordinary people, country music increasingly resonates with listeners beyond its core constituency as they struggle with a complex and uncertain world [Publisher description]".
• catalog contributor b12436786.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description "1. "Take me back to the sweet sunny South" -- 2. "I'm a small-time laboring man" -- 3. "I was dreaming of a little cabin" -- 4. "With my friends at the old country church" -- 5. "When the Lord made me, he made a rambling man" -- 6. "Stay all night, stay a little longer ; dance all night, dance a little longer" -- 7. "How-dee, I'm just so proud to be here" -- 8. "We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse."".
• catalog description "Combining a high-spirited history of country music's roots with vivid portraits of its principal 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 principal source of the music's enduring appeal. Country musicians have often been people from undistinguished blue-collar backgrounds who have tried to make their way as entertainers in a society that has little respect for the working class. From this ambivalent position, they have voiced the sometimes contradictory values and longings of their culture while also attempting to fulfill the romantic expectations of outsiders. "For every Garth Brooks," Malone says, "there are a thousand country musicians who perform in local bars, taverns, and American Legion halls and who have never been able to give up their day jobs. These are musicians whose middle-class dreams are tempered by working-class realities." A powerful and honest expression of the hopes, longings, frailties, and failings of ordinary people, country music increasingly resonates with listeners beyond its core constituency as they struggle with a complex and uncertain world [Publisher description]".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical and discographical references and indexes.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 392 p., [16] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0252026780".
• catalog isPartOf "Music in American life".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
• catalog spatial "Southern States".
• catalog subject "Country music Social aspects.".
• catalog subject "ML3524 .M344 2002".
• catalog subject "Working class Southern States Songs and music History and criticism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. "Take me back to the sweet sunny South" -- 2. "I'm a small-time laboring man" -- 3. "I was dreaming of a little cabin" -- 4. "With my friends at the old country church" -- 5. "When the Lord made me, he made a rambling man" -- 6. "Stay all night, stay a little longer ; dance all night, dance a little longer" -- 7. "How-dee, I'm just so proud to be here" -- 8. "We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse."".
• catalog title "Don't get above your raisin' : country music and the southern working class / Bill C. Malone.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "Music. fast".
• catalog type "text".