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Murphy, Clifford R.

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New England Country & Western music: Self-reliance, community expression, and regional resistance on the New England frontier.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	New England Country & Western music: Self-reliance, community expression, and regional resistance on the New England frontier./
Author:	Murphy, Clifford R.
Description:	453 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4180.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-11A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3335684
ISBN:	9780549898030

New England Country & Western music: Self-reliance, community expression, and regional resistance on the New England frontier.
Murphy, Clifford R.

New England Country & Western music: Self-reliance, community expression, and regional resistance on the New England frontier. - 453 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4180.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2008.

This work examines New England Country & Western music as a series of frontiers that construct and reinforce regional working-class community and identity in a multi-ethnic region. Accepting that identity---racial, ethnic, class, regional, and national/global---are socially constructed phenomena, this work explores how New Englanders utilize frontier motifs of Country & Western music to establish multi-ethnic sociability, community, and identity in the midst of demographic, economic, industrial, and technological changes. To provide a framework for the discussion of New England Country & Western music, the work begins with a history of the music in New England, from its origins in hillbilly orchestras and old-time fiddle competitions of the 1920s, through the barnstorming era (1935-1955) and national chart success of New England's most prominent singer and song (Dick Curless' "A Tombstone Every Mile" in 1965), and the disappearance of local Country & Western music from local/regional radio in the 1970s with the onset of automated radio. Subsequent chapters examine the New England Country & Western Event---the pairing of a show and a dance---as a generative site for social and economic capital, and multi-ethnic sociability and community. The professional life of the barnstorming Country & Western musician is explored as existing along a frontier between individualism and communitarianism, and generative of tensions between personal problems and solutions. The final two chapters examine the New England Country & Western dialectic---tensions between self-reliance and communitarianism---in Maine truck driving songs and songs about self-sufficient cowboys and farmers. The archetypal figures of New England Country & Western---the Maine truck driver and the old cowboy living in changing times---can be understood as the embodiment of a longing for an imagined age of self-sufficiency, an identity marker of working class community, and a critique of a national/global culture that appears to value financial capital over social capital.

ISBN: 9780549898030Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

New England Country & Western music: Self-reliance, community expression, and regional resistance on the New England frontier.
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