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Author Vander Wel, Stephanie

Title Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls Women's Country Music, 1930-1960
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (232 p.)
Series Music in American Life Ser
Music in American Life Ser
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One WLS and the National Barn Dance -- 1 Early Country Music: The Crossing of Musical Hierarchies on Chicago's WLS -- 2 The Rural Masquerades of Gender: Lulu Belle and Her Radio Audience -- 3 Gendering the Musical West: Patsy Montana's Cowgirl Songs of Tomboy Glamour -- Part Two California Country Music -- 4 Carolina Cotton: Yodeling Virtuosity and Theatricality in California Country Music -- 5 Rose Maddox: Roadhouse Singing and Hillbilly Theatrics
Part Three Nashville's Honky-Tonk and Country Music Industry -- 6 Voices of Angels: Kitty Wells and the Emergence of Women's Honky-Tonk -- 7 Domestic Respectability: The Marketing of Honky-Tonk Performers -- Conclusion: Country Vocalities and Gendered Theatrics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Women country musicians -- United States
Radio and music -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Radio and music
Women country musicians
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252051944
0252051947