Introduction / Cecelia Tichi 1
Sing Me a Song about Ramblin' Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music / Christopher Metress 4
Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising Over the Mystery Train: The Complex Construction of Country Music / David Sanjek 22
Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music / Theresa Goddu 45
A Musical Legacy, A Way of Life: A Photo Essay / Charmaine Lanham 65
Commercial (and/or) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and Bluegrass Traditions / Mark Fenster 74
Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton / Pamela Wilson 98
Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music / Curtis W. Ellison 121
Girls with Guitars - and Fringe and Sequins and Rhinestones, Silk, Lace, and Leather / Mary A. Bufwack 153
Event Songs / Charles K. Wolfe 188
Country Green: The Money in Country Music / Don Cusic 200
Country Music and the Contemporary Composer: The Case of Paul Martin Zonn / Michael Kurel and Cecelia Tichi 209
"My name is Sue! How do you do?" Johnny Cash as Lesbian Icon / Teresa Ortega 222
The Dialectic of hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country Music / Richard A. Peterson 234
"The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices": Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of Country Music / Vivien Green Fryd 256
Mecca for the Country Music Scholar / Ronnie Pugh 286
Country Music, Seriously: An Interview with Bill C. Malone / Cecelia Tichi 290
Reading the Row / Christine Kreyling 307
The Metric Makings of a Country Hit / Jocelyn Neal 322
"The Voice of Woe": Willie Nelson and Evangelical Spirituality / T. Walter Herbert 338
"I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven": Fred Rose's Acquaintance with Country Music / John W. Rumble 350
Jim Crow and the Pale Maiden: Gender, Color, and Class in Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" / Amy Schrager Lang 378
Selected Discography 389
Notes on Contributors 395
Index 399
