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

Ching, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0195108353 ISBN 13: 9780195108354

Published by Oxford University Press, 2001

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First Edition, First Printing. Published by Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in copper. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. A fine copy of this history of hard country music. 186 pages. ISBN: 9780195108354. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!. Seller Inventory # 142497

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Title: Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Dust Jacket Condition: Like New

Edition: First Edition.

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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.
With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers.

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Barbara Ching is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis. She co-edited Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy (1997).

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