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Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture Paperback - 2003

by Barbara Ching


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This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk.
With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers.

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While Richard Peterson has convincingly argued that the history of commercial country music, beginning in 1923, can be written by following its dialectical movement between "hard-core and soft-shell" expressions (Creating, 229 ff.), this movement does not take place of its own accord.

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  • Title Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture
  • Author Barbara Ching
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-08-21
  • ISBN 9780195169423 / 0195169425
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 5.7 x 0.61 in (22.91 x 14.48 x 1.55 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.642

About the author


Barbara Ching is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis. She co-edited Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy (1997).
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