Includes essays previously published in v. 94, no. 1 (1995) of the South Atlantic quarterly
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Introduction / Cecelia Tichi -- Sing me a song about ramblin' man : visions and revisions of Hank Williams in country music / Christopher Metress -- Blue moon of Kentucky rising over the mystery train : the complex construction of country music / David Sanjek -- Bloody daggers and lonesome graveyards : the gothic and country music / Teresa Goddu -- A musical legacy, a way of life : a photo essay / Charmaine Lanham -- Commercial (and/or?) folk : the bluegrass industry and bluegrass traditions / Mark Fenster -- Mountains of contradictions : gender, class, and region in the star image of Dolly Parton / Pamela Wilson -- Keeping faith : evangelical performance in country music / Curtis W. Ellison -- Girls with guitars - and fringe and sequins and rhinestones, silk, lace, and leather / Mary A. Bufwack -- Event songs / Charles K. Wolfe -- Country green : the money in country music / Don Cusic -- Country music and the contemporary composer : the case of Paul Martin Zonn / Michael Kurek and Cecelia Tichi -- "My name is Sue! How do you do?" : Johnny Cash as lesbian icon / Teresa Ortega -- The dialectic of hard-core and soft-shell country music / Richard A. Peterson --"The sad twang of mountain voices" : Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of country music / Vivien Green Fryd -- Mecca for the country music scholar / Ronnie Pugh -- Country music, seriously : an interview with Bill C. Malone / Cecelia Tichi -- Reading the row / Christine Kreyling -- The metric makings of a country hit / Jocelyn Neal -- "The voice of woe" : Willie Nelson and evangelical spirituality / T. Walter Herbert -- "I'll reap my harvest in heaven" : Fred Rose's acquaintance with country music / John W. Rumble -- Jim Crow and the pale maiden : gender, color, and class in Stephen Foster's "Hard times" / Amy Schrager Lang