| Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class Revised Edition Contributor(s): Malone, Bill C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252073665 ISBN-13: 9780252073663 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: Examines the relationship between country music and working-class America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General - Music | History & Criticism - General - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Dewey: 781.642 |
| Series: Music in American Life (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.32" W x 9.42" (1.29 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Combining a high-spirited history of country music's roots with vivid portraits of its primary performers, Don't Get above Your Raisin' examines the close relationship between "America's truest music" and the working-class culture that has constituted its principal source, nurtured its development, and provided its most dedicated supporters. Widely recognized as country music's ranking senior authority, Bill C. Malone explores how the music's defining themes (home and family, religion, rambling, frolic, humor, and politics) have emerged out of the particularities of working people's day-to-day lives. He traces the many contradictory voices and messages of a music that simultaneously extols the virtues of home and the joys of rambling, the assurances of the Christian life and the ecstasies of hedonism, the strength of working-class life and the material lure of middle-class aspirations. The resulting tensions, Malone argues, are a major reason for the music's enduring appeal. |