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Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee (Paperback)
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Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee (Paperback)
Series: 33 1/3
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List price R357
Loot Price R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
You Save R87 (24%)
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Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that
ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee,
released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of
popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing
discussion about region and class, pride and politics, culture and
counterculture. But the conversation around the song, useful as it
was, drowned out the song itself, not to mention the other songs on
the live album-named for Okie and performed in Muskogee-that
Haggard has carefully chosen to frame what has turned out to be his
most famous song. What are the internal clues for gleaning the
intended meaning of Okie? What is the pay-off of the anti-fandom
that Okie sparked (and continues to spark) in some quarters? How
has the song come to be a shorthand for expressing all manner of
anti-working class attitudes? What was Haggard's artistic path to
that stage in Oklahoma, and how did he come to shape the industry
so profoundly at the moment when urban country singers were playing
a major role on the American social and political landscape?
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