Why "Ladies love country boys" : gender, class, and economics in contemporary country music / Jocelyn R. Neal -- "Hey! If I should grab ya" : "college country" and the ruralization of Urban Brazil / Alexander S. Dent -- Act naturally : Charley Pride, autobiography, and the "accidental career" / Matthew D. Sutton -- Holding on to country : musical moorings for desired masculinities in Aboriginal Australia / êAse Ottosson -- Taylor Swift's "pitch problem" and the place of adolescent girls in country music / Travis Stimeling -- Gender and the Nashville songwriter : three songs by Victoria Banks / Chris Wilson -- As if they were going places : class and gender portrayals through country music in the Texas State Prison, 1938-1944 / Caroline Gnagy -- Negotiating gender, race, and class in post-civil rights country music : how Linda Martell and Jeannie C. Riley stormed the plantation / Diane Pecknold -- Remarkable women and ordinary gals : performance of identity in songs by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton / Kate Heidemann -- "Backwoods Barbie" : Dolly Parton's gender performance / Leigh H. Edwards -- Kitty Wells, queen of denial / Georgia Christgau -- Gender deviance and class rebellion in "Redneck woman" / Nadine Hubbs.
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Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre's power and mystique.