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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Country music"”.
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Fall and Redemption: The Essence of Country Music
… paper my experience of the catharsis in singing country music and the Blues. My beginning singing came at a time when I really needed it; the music helped me through a difficult time. The title of the paper is Fall and Redemption: the Essence of Country Music for this reason. It is in Narrative …
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Fall and Redemption: The Essence of Country Music
… paper my experience of the catharsis in singing country music and the Blues. My beginning singing came at a time when I really needed it; the music helped me through a difficult time. The title of the paper is Fall and Redemption: the Essence of Country Music for this reason. It is in Narrative …
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Cultural intimacies of Irish country music: dancing, performance, and aesthetics
This thesis identifies and examines the music and dance phenomenon of Irish Country music, specifically in the Western counties of Ulster. Using ethnographic data it considers the processes allowing an individual to take part, the experiences of the professionals involved, and the aesthetics of the …
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Patriotism, Courtesy of Toby Keith: The Voice of Country Music After September 11
… Soldier" in the aftermath of September 11, country artist Toby Keith enacts a tradition that has been established in the world of country music since the Civil War, that of producing wartime songs of patriotism. I conducted an organic analysis of both songs as rhetorical acts produced and …
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Object Of Your Rejection: The Symbolic Annihilation And Recuperation Of Queer Identities In Country Music
… the symbolic annihilation of queer identities in country music. Bible Belt queers face unique obstacles and have different needs than queer communities elsewhere due to the cultural context of their communities. The urban-centric (“metronormative”) standards of queer identity and visibility …
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Green Grass and Dirty Old Sidewalks: Evolving Images of the Rural and Urban in Honky-Tonk Country Music
A common theme prevails in country music that explores the antagonist relationship between the country and the city. This rural vs. urban theme is very often used as a backdrop for not only espousing the genre’s idealizations of its imagined rural roots, but also serves as a backdrop for exploring …
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Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012
… differential depictions of men and women in top country music from 1944 through 2012. The study attempts to understand the gender system as theorized by Ridgeway using the analytic heuristics of cognitive sociologists and the methods of ethnographic content analysts. Findings include the various …
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Brooklyn Country: Class, Culture and the Politics of "Alternativity"
… than two years of ethnographic research among country music fans in New York City. It specifically addresses what I, and many of my interlocutors call the "Brooklyn country music scene" (or sometimes, the "Brooklyn Country music scene"), a particular nexus of country music activity that was in …
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Creating the Nashville Sound: A Case Study in Commercial Culture Production (Tennessee)
The thesis is an interpretive analysis of country music production in the 1950s and early 60s. It explains the change in the music during the period as the result of symbolic negotiation within the country music industry. The Nashville Sound is seen as the resolution of a struggle to construct a …
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Stumbler (A Screenplay)
… gender, politics, and the internal mythos of country music. The reflection takes core concepts from the literature review and draws a line from the origins of country music to the post-World War II political break between folk and country, and then on to the emergence of outlaw country in the …
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Toby Dick Ellis: Richard Elsenpeter's career in tent repertoire theatre, television, and marionette puppetry
… Elsenpeter spearheaded Possum Holler Opry, a country-music television program that aired for ten years on various local television stations, where he played the host, Toby Dick Ellis. His show was given the Gibson Award, signifying that it was the number-one country-music show in the Midwest. …
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When The Counterculture Picked Up A Southern Twang: A Cultural Analysis Of Late Sixties And Early Seventies Country Rock Movement
… is a cultural analysis of California-based country-rock movement in the late sixties and early seventies. Country rock is a hybrid music genre emerged during this period. Musicians active in the country-rock movement were mostly counterculture hippies, and they adopted country music to serve …
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Teaching the Arts through the Appalachian Culture: a Proposal for a High-School Class.
… Architecture, and Handmade Instruments of Country Music.</p> <p>This course has been taught by the writer at Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee, and was enthusiastically received by both students and members of the community.</p>
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Country Quares: (Dis)identification Discourse in Black Country Aesthetic
… and queer artists and their audiences employ country music as a way to facilitate a reclamation and complication of (Black) Americanness. The data for this study emerges from a qualitative content analysis of six music videos by Black artists released on YouTube between January 2016 and …
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Beyond the Tracks: A History of Cheatham Street Warehouse
Since opening its doors as a music venue in 1974, Cheatham Street Warehouse has been an important facet in the development of Texas songwriters and country music. Although Cheatham Street was opened with the tradition of historical Texas dancehalls and honky-tonks in mind, the tin warehouse has …
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Africa, Appalachia, and acculturation: The history of bluegrass music
… associated with white Southerners, bluegrass music is actually the product of over three hundred years of black and white musical interaction that occurred in the American Southeast. This document begins by reviewing the first complete definition of bluegrass music written by Mayne Smith. It …
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Digital Docent: An Analysis of Accessibility in the Digital Music Space
… in technology. When it comes to the world of music, the same can be said, and digitization of musical material is moving at a faster rate than ever before. With the influence that music has on society and considering new ways of making music more accessible to the general public through the …
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