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Author La Chapelle, Peter.

Title Proud to be an Okie : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / Peter La Chapelle
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages)
Series American crossroads ; 22
American crossroads ; 22
Contents Big city ways. At the crossroads of whiteness : antimigrant activism, eugenics, and popular culture ; Refugees : Woody Guthrie, "Lost Angeles," and the radicalization of migrant identity ; Rhythm kings and riveter queens : race, gender, and the eclectic populism of wartime western swing -- Rhinstones and ranch homes. Ballads for the crabgrass frontier : suburbanization, whiteness and the unmaking of Okie musical ethnicity ; Playing second fiddle no more? : country music, domesticity, and the women's movement ; Fightin' sides : "Okie from Muskogee," conservative-populism, and the uses of migrant identity
Summary 'Proud to be an Okie' brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s
Notes Chapters 1 and 5 are revised versions of essays previously published in the collected volumes Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850/2000, edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda Long (Nevada Humanities Committee, 2001), and A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America 28 (2001): pp. 3/12
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index
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Subject Country music -- California -- History and criticism
Music -- Political aspects
Popular culture -- California, Southern -- History -- 20th century
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Country & Bluegrass.
MUSIC -- General.
Country music
Music -- Political aspects
Popular culture
Countrymusic
California
Southern California
Kalifornien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696759
ISBN 9780520940000
0520940008
9781429467940
1429467940
0520904028
9780520904026