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| Each Part opens with an Overview | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Heading into the Country | |
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| Country as Genre | |
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| Definition of Country | |
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| Is it Real? Issues of Authenticity in Country Music | |
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| Goals and Themes | |
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| Situating a Performer | |
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| How to Listen | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| The Early Years (1920s and 1930s) | |
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| The Birth of Country Music | |
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| Musical Sources | |
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| New Technologies: Records and Radio | |
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| Essay (Culture): Radio Barn Dances | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Audiences | |
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| The Business of Music | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Hillbilly Entertainers | |
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| The Performers | |
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| Listening Guide: "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Hallelujah Side" | |
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| Essay (Identity): Women in Early Country Music | |
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| The Big Bang of Country Music | |
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| Role of the Producer | |
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| Essay (Music Business): Copyright | |
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| Essay (Technology): Making Records in the 1920s | |
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| Listening Guide: "Keep on the Sunny Side" | |
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| Artist Profile: The Carter Family and Its Legacy | |
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| Listening Guide: "Blue Yodel" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)" | |
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| Contributions of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to Country Music | |
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| Listening Guide: "Blue Yodel No. 9" | |
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| Essay (Culture): Cover Songs | |
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| Essay (Identity): Race in Early Country Music | |
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| Innovation and Change | |
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| Barn Dance Radio Shows, Stars, and the Brother Acts | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Brother Acts | |
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| Essay (Music Business): Sponsorship | |
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| Listening Guide: "The Great Speckled Bird" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Western Swing | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Innovation in Western Swing | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Singing Cowboy | |
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| Listening Guide: "New San Antonio Rose" | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Singing Cowboys | |
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| Listening Guide: "Back in the Saddle Again" | |
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| On the Brink of World War II | |
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| World War II and After: Nationalism and Country Music (1940s and 1950s) | |
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| Honky-Tonk Heyday | |
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| New Radio Stars | |
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| Essay (Music Business): Forces behind the Scenes | |
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| Country Music Culture in the Postwar Years | |
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| Essay (Technology): A New Era in Recording | |
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| Essay (Culture): Folk, Country, and the Novelty Song | |
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| Honky-Tonk Roots | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Honky-Tonk | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Country Boogie | |
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| Listening Guide: "Walking the Floor over You" | |
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| The Louisiana Hayride | |
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| Honky-Tonk Heyday | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Song Comparison: "In the Jailhouse Now" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Your Cheatin' Heart" | |
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| The Honky-Tonk Image | |
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| Honky-Tonk Angels | |
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| Answer Songs | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "(Pay Me) Alimony" | |
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| Essay (Songwriting): Songwriting in Nashville | |
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| The Impact of Honky-Tonk | |
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| The Birth of Bluegrass | |
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| The Origins of Bluegrass | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Bluegrass | |
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| Listening Guide: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" | |
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| First-Generation Bands | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" | |
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| Essay (Identity): Women in Bluegrass | |
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| Bluegrass Meets Folk | |
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| From Bluegrass to Folk to Commercial Country | |
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| Essay (Culture): Bluegrass Festivals | |
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| Bluegrass as Symbol and Soundtrack | |
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| Listening Guide: "Rocky Top" | |
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| The Relationship between Bluegrass and Country | |
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| Rockabilly and Teen Romance | |
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| Setting the Stage: The Emergence of Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| Memphis Rockabilly and Elvis Presley | |
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| Essay (Culture): Teenagers and Music | |
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| Essay (Culture): Cajun Country | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Rockabilly | |
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| Song Comparison: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" | |
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| Rockabilly as Part of Country Music | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Folsom Prison Blues"Rockabilly Women | |
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| Rock 'n' Roll and Country Connections beyond Sun | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "I Gotta Know"Country Teen Crooners | |
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| Listening Guide: "Young Love"Coming to an End | |
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| The Big Business of Country Music (1960s and 1970s) | |
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| The Nashville Sound and Musical Innovation | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| The Stars | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): The Nashville Sound | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Faded Love" | |
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| Listening Guide: "He'll Have to Go" | |
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| The Songs | |
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| Song Comparison: "Take Me In Your Arms and Hold Me" | |
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| Essay (Songwriting): A Professional Writer's Town | |
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| Listening Guide: "El Paso" | |
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| Essay (Music Business): The Country Music Association | |
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| Instrumentals | |
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| The Second Wave of Nashville Sound Artists | |
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| Making Sense of the Nashville Sound | |
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| California Country and Country Rock | |
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| Out in Bakersfield | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Bakersfield Sound | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Mama Tried" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" | |
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| Essay (History): "Okie from Muskogee" and Country Music Politics | |
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| Bluegrass Meets Folk-Rock | |
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| Country Rock | |
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| Essay (Culture): The Byrds on the Opry | |
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| Country Rock Branches Out | |
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| California Country | |
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| Listening Guide: "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" | |
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| Traditionalists and Classic Country | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Classic Country | |
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| Classic Country's Female Stars | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Coal Miner's Daughter" | |
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| Song Comparison: "Muleskinner Blues" | |
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| Classic Country's Male Stars | |
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| Essay (Identity): Gender in Classic Country | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "He Stopped Loving Her Today" | |
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| Listening Guide: "You've Never Been This Far Before" | |
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| Breaking Barriers | |
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| Essay (Culture): The Opry Moves | |
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| Essay (Songwriting): Story Songs | |
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| Essay (Songwriting): Truckin' Songs and the Open Road | |
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| The Duets and Ensembles | |
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| TV and Country Music | |
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| Looking Back on Classic Country | |
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| Expansion: From Country to Rock and Pop and Back Again (1970s and 1980s) | |
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| Outlaw Country and Southern Rock Rebellion | |
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| The Emergence of Outlaw Country | |
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| Essay (Music Business): Behaving Like Outlaws | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Outlaw Country | |
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| Album Exploration: Red Headed Stranger | |
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| Outlaw Country Runs Its Course | |
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| Listening Guide: "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" | |
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| Essay (Culture): Long-Haired Rednecks, Hippies, and Cosmic Cowboys | |
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| Southern Rock and the Country Audience | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Southern Rock | |
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| Listening Guide: "Sweet Home Alabama" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "The South's Gonna Do It" | |
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| Urban Cowboys, Countrypolitan, and the Regan Era | |
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| History and Rise of Crossover Country | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Countrypolitan | |
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| Pop Culture, the Cowboy, and the Country Boy | |
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| Essay (Culture): Country Music on the Silver Screen | |
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| Politics, Economics, and the Appeal of the Urban Cowboy | |
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| New Media and Breaking Down Genre Borders | |
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| The Stars and Songs of Urban Cowboy | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Essay (Music Business): International Country | |
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| Listening Guide: "I Was Country (When Country Wasn't Cool)" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Love in the First Degree" | |
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| The End of Urban Cowboy | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Islands in the Stream" | |
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| Neotraditionalists and Remaking the Past | |
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| Countrypolitan Fades | |
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| Neotraditionalist Philosophy | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): Neotraditionalist Recordings | |
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| Early Practitioners | |
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| Essay (Songwriting): Cover Songs Revisited | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "How Blue" | |
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| Neotraditionalism Takes Root | |
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| Listening Guide: "All My Ex's Live in Texas" | |
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| Co-opted, Conservative, and Commercial | |
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| Essay (Culture): Branson, Missouri, and Country Music Tourism | |
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| Country Music In Popular Culture (1990s and 2000s) | |
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| The Commercial Country Explosion | |
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| The Class of 1989 and "New Country" | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Essay (History): Southernization and Soccer Moms | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): New Country and Country Pop | |
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| Themes in New Country | |
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| Listening Guide: "Friends in Low Places" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Gone Country" | |
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| Stylistic Pendulums and Country Pop | |
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| Essay (Culture): Line Dancing | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Any Man of Mine" | |
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| Essay (Songwriting): Songwriting and Sophistication | |
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| The End of the 1990s | |
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| Alternative Country and Roots Revival | |
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| Defining Alternative Country | |
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| Alternative Country Origins | |
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| Alternative Country Coalesces | |
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| A Broader Definition: Alternative Country as Musical Space | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Essay (Technology): The Internet Age | |
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| Listening Guide: "No Depression" | |
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| Essay (Musical Style): What Alt-Country Doesn't Sound Like | |
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| Listening Guide: "Suppose Tonight Would Be Our Last" | |
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| Essay (Culture): Gay Line Dancing | |
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| Americana | |
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| Another Alternative: Bluegrass | |
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| The Impact on Mainstream Country | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Changes in Commercial Country | |
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| Murder on Music Row: The Turning Tide | |
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| Listening Guide: "Man of Constant Sorrow" | |
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| Essay (Culture): The O Brother Phenomenon | |
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| Into the Present | |
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| Country Music in the Spotlight | |
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| Essay (Culture): Dixie Chicks and Politics | |
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| Listening Guide: "Long Time Gone" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Whiskey Lullaby" | |
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| Return of Roots and Rednecks | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Listening Guide: "Redneck Woman" | |
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| Americana and Alternative? | |
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| Pop Culture Lays Claim to Country Music | |
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| Artist Profile | |
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| Essay (Identity): Race in Contemporary Country | |
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| Essay (Technology): MP3s Please | |
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| Reflecting and Projecting Meaning | |
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| The Main Themes in Country Music's History | |
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| Looking Forward | |
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| Song Form | |
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| Country Instruments | |
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| Finding the Recordings | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |