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Title Old roots, new routes : the cultural politics of alt.country music / edited by Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index.
Contents Introduction: The importance of being ironic : toward a theory and critique of alt.country music / Barbara Ching and Pamela Fox -- Selling out or buying in? : alt.country's cultural politics of commercialism / Diane Pecknold -- Growing up and out of alt.country : on Gen X, wearing vintage, and Neko Case / Jon Smith -- Beyond Austin's city limits : Justin Treviño and the boundaries of "alternative" country / Aaron A. Fox -- Meeting in the marketplace : a taste for romance in Songcatcher and O brother, where art thou? / Barbara Ching -- Time as "revelator" : alt.country women's performance of the past / Pamela Fox -- "Regressive country" : the voice of Gram Parsons / Olivia Carter Mather -- Old time punk / Aaron Smithers -- "The burden is passed on" : Son Volt, tradition, and authenticity / Stevie Simkin -- Conclusion : New alternatives? : top 40 "outlaws" Gretchen Wilson, Miranda Lambert, and the Dixie Chicks / Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching -- Alt.country chronology / Kelly Burchfield and Barbara Ching.
Subject Alternative country music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Alternative country music.
United States.
Added Author Fox, Pamela, 1958-
Ching, Barbara, 1958-
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