A Boy Named Sue

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Gender and Country Music

Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold

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University Press of Mississippi
02 October 2024

Country & Western music; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: American Made Music Series

From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper male and female roles have influenced the kinds of sounds and images that could be included in country music; preconceptions of gender have helped to determine the songs and artists audiences would buy or reject; and gender has shaped the identities listeners made for themselves in relation to the music they revered.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays is the first book-length effort to examine how gender conventions, both masculine and feminine, have structured the creation and marketing of country music. The essays explore the uses of gender in creating the personas of stars as diverse as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Shania Twain. The authors also examine how deeply conventions have influenced the institutions and everyday experiences that give country music its image: the popular and fan press, the country music industry in Nashville, and the line dance crazes that created the dance hall boom of the 1990s.

From Hank Thompson's """"The Wild Side of Life"""" to Johnny Cash's """"A Boy Named Sue,"""" from Tammy Wynette's """"Stand by Your Man"""" to Loretta Lynn's ode to birth control, """"The Pill,"""" A Boy Named Sue demonstrates the role gender played in the development of country music and its current prominence.

Edited by: Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 333g
ISBN: 9781578066780
ISBN 10: 1578066786
Series: American Made Music Series
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 02 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristine M. McCusker is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. |Diane Pecknold is an independent scholar in Chicago, Illinois.

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