The honky tonk on the left : progressive thought in country music / edited by Mark Allan Jackson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Richard Nixon, Johnny Cash, and the political soul of country music / Mark Allan Jackson -- The N.R.A. blues : commercial country music and the New Deal / Gregory N. Reish -- Senator Glen H. Taylor : radio's utopian singing cowboy / Peter La Chapelle -- Weeping and flamboyant men : Webb Pierce and the campy theatrics of country music / Stephanie Vander Wel -- Stand up to your man : the working-class feminism of Loretta Lynn / Mark Allan Jackson -- "I'm the other one" : O.B. McClinton and the racial politics of country music in the 1970s / Charles L. Hughes -- "I'm a radical for real" : an oral history of country music's original outlaw, Steve Young / Ted Olson -- "Them's my kind of people" : cross-marginal solidarity in country music of the long seventies / Nadine Hubbs -- Man against machine : Garth Brooks as player and provocateur / Stephanie Shonekan -- "Leave country music to white folk"? : narratives from contemporary African-American country artists on race and music / Stephen A. King and P. Renee Foster -- Reading hick-hop : the shotgun marriage of hip-hop and country music / Tressie McMillan Cottom -- Alternative country music and the American midwest as industrial wasteland / Travis D. Stimeling -- The politics of covers : Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, and the American recordings / Jonathan Silverman.

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