The women of country music : a reader / edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys: A Vaudeville Valedictory; Notes; ""And No Man Shall Control Me"": The Strange Case of Roba Stanley, Country's First Woman Recording Star; ""Do You Want Mustard?"" ""Yup!"": First Lady of Banjo Roni Stoneman; Notes; Getting the Word Out: The Country of Bronwen Wallace and Emmylou Harris; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Rose Lee Maphis and Working on Barn Dance Radio, 1930-1960; Notes; ""Reconsider Me"": Margaret Lewis Warwick and the Louisiana Hayride; Notes.

Home to Renfro Valley: John Lair and the Women o fthe Barn DanceNotes; The Voice Behind the Song: Faith Hill, Country Music, and Reflexive Identity; Introduction; Biography and Artistic Identity; The Singer's Voice -- The Collection of Songs; Faith Hill and Reflexive Identity; Echoes of the Country; Who I Am -- Notes; The Cow That's Ugly Has the Sweetest Milk; Works Cited; Women in Texas Music: A Conversation with the Texana Dames; Women in Texas Music: A Conversation with the Texana Dames; Note; If You're Not in It for Love: Canadian Women in Country Music; Introduction; Methodology.

Defining Country MusicThe Subculture of Country Music; Being a Woman Country Music Singer; Working Lives; The Role of Radio; Conclusion; Works Cited; The Yodeling Cowgirls: Australian Women and Country Music; Notes; Teaching About Women in Country Music; Introduction; Language Arts and Teaching About Women; Women's Issues and Country Music; Women and Geography; A Collegiate Course; Conclusion; Works Cited; Contributors.

Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920s career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50s honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride's Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more.

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