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Wrong's What I Do Best - Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture (Paperback) Loot Price: R2,297
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Wrong's What I Do Best - Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture (Paperback): Barbara Ching

Wrong's What I Do Best - Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture (Paperback)

Barbara Ching

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This book is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. The author compares hard country music to mainstream country music and to "high" culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierachy, 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, buying into the standards of "higher" culture.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2003
First published: August 2003
Authors: Barbara Ching (Assistant Professor of English)
Dimensions: 225 x 143 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516942-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Country & western
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LSN: 0-19-516942-5
Barcode: 9780195169423

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