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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class Paperback - 2006

by Bill C. Malone


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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.

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  • Title Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
  • Author Bill C. Malone
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date February 6, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780252073663 / 0252073665
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.32 x 1.01 in (23.93 x 16.05 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress subjects Country music - Social aspects, Working class - Southern States - Songs and
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.642

About the author

Bill C. Malone, professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, is the author of Country Music, U.S.A.;Southern Music/American Music;Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music, and other books.

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