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The Women of Country Music A Reader
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Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson
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(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. ix, 229. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, works cited. $28.00.)
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| As the editors of The Women of Country Music suggest, it is impossible to understand the current popularity of country music without recognizing the essential roles that women and gender have played in shaping the genre and its audiences. This is the first thematically coherent volume in the annual series edited by the organizers of the International Country Music Conference, and it gathers a wide range of current scholarship in country music studies, reflecting disciplinary backgrounds from history, literature, musicology, and education alongside the scholarship of aficionados. |
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