Walking the Line
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6966-7 (ISBN)
Thomas Alan Holmes is a professor of English who teaches American literature in the East Tennessee State University Department of Literature and Language; he also serves as associate dean of arts and sciences. Roxanne Harde is associate dean—research, an associate professor of English, and a McCalla University Professor at the University of Alberta—Augustana Faculty. She studies and teaches American literature and culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction
Walking the Line: The Dixie Chicks and the Making of Country Lyricists
Thomas Alan Holmes
Roxanne Harde
Chapter 1
“Nobody knows but me”: Jimmie Rodgers and the Body Politic
Taylor Hagood
Chapter 2
Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the West
Thomas Alan Holmes
Chapter 3
“Help your brother along the way”: Hank Williams and the Humane Tradition
Howard Steve Goodson
Chapter 4
JC: Johnny Cash and Faith
Thomas Alan Holmes
Chapter 5
Religious Doctrine in the mid-1970s to 1980s Country Music Concept Albums of Willie Nelson
Blase S. Scarnati
Chapter 6
Grace to Catch a Falling Soul: Country, Gospel, and Evangelical Populism in the Music of Dottie Rambo
Douglas Harrison
Chapter 7
“Here’s the story of my life; listen and I’ll tell it twice”: The Appalachian Autobiography of Loretta Lynn
Laura Grace Pattillo
Chapter 8
“Branded” Man: Merle Haggard’s Romance of the Outlier
Thomas Alan Holmes
Chapter 9
Townes van Zandt: “Now here’s what this story’s told.”
Pete Falconer and James Zborowski
Chapter 10
Wildness, Eschatology, and Enclosure in the Songs of Townes Van Zandt
Michael B. MacDonald
Chapter 11
“Where it counts I’m real”: The Complexities of Dolly Parton’s Feminist Voice
Samantha Christensen
Chapter 12
“Sin City”: Gram Parsons and the “Christ-Haunted South”
Clay Motley
Chapter 13
Weeping Willows and Long Black Veils: The Country Roots of Rosanne Cash, from Scotland to Tennessee
June Skinner Sawyers
Chapter 14
“They draft the white trash first ‘round here anyway”: Steve Earle’s American Boys
Roxanne Harde
Index
About the Contributors
Co-Autor | Pete Falconer, Howard Steve Goodson, Taylor Hagood |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 239 mm |
Gewicht | 576 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7391-6966-1 / 0739169661 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-6966-7 / 9780739169667 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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