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Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture

Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture

Ching, Barbara

Paperback

Country & FolkMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0195169425
ISBN13: 9780195169423
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 21 2003
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This is the first study of hard country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining 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, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk.

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