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Wrong's what I do best
hard country music and contemporary culture
By Ching, Barbara
- ISBN
- 978-0-19510-835-4
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2001
A professor of English (Univ. of Memphis) and obvious country music fanatic, Ching offers a study of the basis and social implications of "hard country." She begins by defining her subject as the Southern twang of angry alienation, hard times, and incurable desolation in contrast to the patriotism, nostalgia, and pop romance of mainstream country. She examines the desolate male fatalism of such sta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
