| Description |
xv, 607 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-581) and index. |
| Contents |
Spirit of the mountains: women in American folk music -- Southern sentiments : country females in nineteenth-century show business -- Single girl, married girl : the Carter Family and the birth of country music recording -- National barn dance : country women, radio, and the Great Depression -- Hungry disgusted blues : women in protest -- Hollywood hayride : country music women in WWII -- Honky-tonk girl : Kitty Wells and her postwar sisters -- All-day sing : women and Southern gospel music -- Rockabilly women : let's have a party -- Nashville sound : Patsy Cline and the Grand Ole Opry -- Folk revival : Come all ye fair and tender maidens -- You're lookin' at country : Loretta Lynn and working-class pride -- Heroines of heartbreak : Tammy Wynette and traditional values -- Just because I'm a woman : Dolly Parton and her savvy sisters -- Hollywood Tennessee : Barbara Mandrell and the show queens of country music -- Back to country : Emmylou Harris and the country-rock fusion -- Little darlin's not my name : women in bluegrass -- Eighties ladies and beyond : images for modern times -- Meeting the millennium : female country triumphs. |
| Subject |
Country music -- History and criticism.
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Country music. |
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Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Country musicians. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Women country musicians. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Oermann, Robert K.
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| ISBN |
0826514324 cloth alkaline paper |
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