- Title Information
- Title
- New England Country & Western Music: Self-Reliance, Community Expression, and Regional Resistance on the New England Frontier
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Murphy, Clifford R.
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Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 2008
- Physical Description
- Extent
- xi, 453 p.
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- born digital
- Note
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Brown University (2008)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Titon, Jeff
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- director
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Post, Jennifer
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Buhle, Paul
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Subotnik, Rose
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- Role Term:
Text
- reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology
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- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- 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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Country & Western
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dick Curless
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Yodeling Slim Clark
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Tombstone Every Mile
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- frontier
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- working-class
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- truck driving music
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Hal Lone Pine
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Betty Cody
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- community
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- hillbilly
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Maritime Canada
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- social capital
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- minstrelsy
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Franco-American music
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/881424")
- Topic
- Country music
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1723579")
- Topic
- Borderlands
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180418")
- Topic
- Working class
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122281")
- Topic
- Social capital (Sociology)
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111915")
- Topic
- Self-reliance
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- Name
- Name Part
- Curless, Dick
- Name Part:
Date
- 1932-1995
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1797803")
- Name
- Name Part
- Clark, Slim
- Name Part:
Date
- 1917-2000
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- Name
- Name Part
- Lone Pine, Hal
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- Geographic
- Maine
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204318")
- Geographic
- New Hampshire
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204305")
- Geographic
- Vermont
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205688")
- Geographic
- Connecticut
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204599")
- Geographic
- Rhode Island
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204307")
- Geographic
- Massachusetts
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- RPB
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- 20091218
- Language
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- eng
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z0D21VWV
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- dissertations