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Contributions by Christina Baade, Candace Bailey, Paula J. Bishop,
Maribeth Clark, Brittany Greening, Tammy Kernodle, Kendra Preston
Leonard, April L. Prince, Travis D. Stimeling, and Kristen M.
Turner For every star, there are hundreds of less-recognized women
who contribute to musical communities, influencing their aesthetics
and expanding opportunities available to women. Hidden Harmonies:
Women and Music in Popular Entertainment focuses not on those whose
names are best known nor most celebrated but on the women who had
power in collective or subversive ways hidden from standard
histories. Contributors to Hidden Harmonies reexamine primary
sources using feminist and queer methodologies as well as critical
race theory in order to overcome previous, biased readings. The
scholarship that results from such reexaminations explores topics
from songwriters to the music of the civil rights movement and from
whistling schools to musical influencers. These wide-ranging essays
create a diverse and novel view of women's contribution to music
and its production. With intelligence and care, Hidden Harmonies
uncovers the fascinating figures behind decades of popular music.
In a period in which racism and gender inequity are at the fore of
public, political, and scholarly discourse, this collection
challenges systems of gatekeeping that have dictated who gets to
participate in twenty-first century country music culture. Building
on established scholarship, this book examines contemporary issues
in country music through feminist, intersectional, and
post-colonialist theories, as well as other intertextual and
cultural lenses. The authors pose questions about diversity,
representation, and identity as they relate to larger concepts of
artist and fan communities, stylistic considerations of the genre,
and modes of production from a twenty-first century perspective.
Addressing and challenging the received narrative about country
music culture, this collection delves into the gaps that are
inherent in existing approaches that privileged biography and
historiography and expands new areas of inquiry relating to
contemporary country music identity and culture.
Contributions by Christina Baade, Candace Bailey, Paula J. Bishop,
Maribeth Clark, Brittany Greening, Tammy Kernodle, Kendra Preston
Leonard, April L. Prince, Travis D. Stimeling, and Kristen M.
Turner For every star, there are hundreds of less-recognized women
who contribute to musical communities, influencing their aesthetics
and expanding opportunities available to women. Hidden Harmonies:
Women and Music in Popular Entertainment focuses not on those whose
names are best known nor most celebrated but on the women who had
power in collective or subversive ways hidden from standard
histories. Contributors to Hidden Harmonies reexamine primary
sources using feminist and queer methodologies as well as critical
race theory in order to overcome previous, biased readings. The
scholarship that results from such reexaminations explores topics
from songwriters to the music of the civil rights movement and from
whistling schools to musical influencers. These wide-ranging essays
create a diverse and novel view of women's contribution to music
and its production. With intelligence and care, Hidden Harmonies
uncovers the fascinating figures behind decades of popular music.
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