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White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans

White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans

Paperback

Religion General Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 0687032938
ISBN13: 9780687032938
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: Oct 1 1996
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
White Soul examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans. Country music gives voice to an economically battered subculture of hard-living and hard-working people who find self-expression in the music of honky-tonks and heartaches. It celebrates the wild side of life as a form of populist anarchism and escapist festivity. This unusual medley of sociology, theology, and country music history is also a compelling critique of the elitism of good taste in the dominant culture. Tex Sample challenges the church to reach out to working-class people, who have often been ignored and demeaned by churches held captive to the tastes and lifestyles of the upper middle class.

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