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Did Country Music Re-elect the President?
In the last installment of the Country Music Literature series, we examined the lyrical construction of country songs. The current article considers the political implications of country music and a Department of State official’s assertion that country music may have played an integral, perhaps even an essential, role in re-electing President Bush.
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“The Imagined World of Country Music”
This is part two of my analysis of Maxine Grossman’s “Jesus, Mama and the Constraints on Salvific Love in Contemporary Country Music. Read part one here. Check back soon for the next installment of the series, in which I’ll feature a new article.
“All I can say about ‘We Shall be Free’ is that I [...]
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Dissecting the Country Lyric: Finding the “Religious Space”
Despite the disdain that many members of the “intellectual elite” seem to exhibit toward country music, academia’s scholarly journals publish a surprising number of excellent articles that thoughtfully examine the art of country music and its cultural and social impact. Search of the most common electronic databases reveals hundreds of insightful gems from the most [...]
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