Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world wh...

Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre’s power and mystique

Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have hel...

Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between com...

An anthology that questions the roles gender plays in creating and marketing a great American mus...

From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual ...

American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was...

From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual ...

Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre's power and mystiqueContributions by ...

'Any intelligent reader will enjoy 'The Selling Sound.' Tackling an element of country music that...

Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have hel...

Industry history of the country music business.