| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages). |
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| Series |
American crossroads ; 22
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American crossroads ; 22.
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| Note |
Chapters 1 and 5 are revised versions of essays previously published in the collected volumes Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850/2000, edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda Long (Nevada Humanities Committee, 2001), and A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America 28 (2001): pp. 3/12. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index. |
| Contents |
Big city ways. At the crossroads of whiteness : antimigrant activism, eugenics, and popular culture ; Refugees : Woody Guthrie, "Lost Angeles," and the radicalization of migrant identity ; Rhythm kings and riveter queens : race, gender, and the eclectic populism of wartime western swing -- Rhinstones and ranch homes. Ballads for the crabgrass frontier : suburbanization, whiteness and the unmaking of Okie musical ethnicity ; Playing second fiddle no more? : country music, domesticity, and the women's movement ; Fightin' sides : "Okie from Muskogee," conservative-populism, and the uses of migrant identity. |
| Summary |
'Proud to be an Okie' brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Country music -- California -- History and criticism.
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Country music. |
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California. |
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Music -- Political aspects.
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Music -- Political aspects. |
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Popular culture -- California, Southern -- History -- 20th century.
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Music. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Popular culture. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Country & Bluegrass. |
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Southern California. |
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MUSIC -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Proud to be an Okie Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520248885 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2006019222 |
| ISBN |
9780520940000 ebook |
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0520940008 |
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9780520248885 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520248880 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520248892 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520248899 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781429467940 (electronic book) |
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1429467940 (electronic book) |
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0520904028 |
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9780520904026 |
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