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

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 ...

One of the most influential and acclaimed female vocalists of the twentieth century, Patsy Cline ...

As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy ...

American barn dance radio of the 1920s-1940s evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable p...

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

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A collective biography of the women who shaped early country and western music