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Tamworth

Bruce Johnson

Bruce Johnson

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 42,510 (2001) The city of Tamworth is located on the Peel River in the New England region of New South Wales, 281 miles (453 km) by road northwest of Sydney. It began as a station for the Australian...

Country Music and Religion

Edwards Leigh H.

Edwards Leigh H.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Country music’s engagement with religion reflects a larger cultural context of Southern white working-class culture. Even though country music has always had a broader audience demographic, it is still symbolically associated...

Easy street on mud tires: The “heartland” and the frontier of the road in country music

Virginia Shay

Virginia Shay

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Music and the road : Essays on the interplay of music and the popular culture of the American road

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Who needs a house up on a hillWhen you can have one on four wheelsAnd take it anywhere the wind might blow? From the Frontier to the Road From Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” to the road trips of Jack Kerouac and the Beat...

Darwin

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Karl Neuenfeldt

Karl Neuenfeldt

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 106,842 (2001) The capital of the Northern Territory, established (1869) as Palmerston on Beagle Gulf, was renamed Darwin in 1911. Australia’s northernmost city, its proximity to Asia gave it a strategic...

Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies

Rachel Lee Rubin

Rachel Lee Rubin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and Director of the Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society. She has published and taught extensively on popular music, popular culture, and culture of the American left. Rubin is a regular media commentator on popular culture and public affairs. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped...

“Sometimes I Get Political, Sometimes I Get Offensive”: Pushing Back According to Dallas Wayne

Creative Activism : Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...“Just jump in and grab it,” Dallas Wayne told me in an effort to summarize how to write country music that speaks to social realities. Wayne’s music “grabs it” so well that despite his frequent engagement of serious content, his songs...

“Can I Take My Dog with Me to Heaven?” Swedish Country Music and Religion

Thomas Bossius

Thomas Bossius

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Religion and Popular Music : Artists, Fans, and Cultures

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...In the lyrics and culture of US country music, expressions of a conservative, popular, and down-to-earth type of layman Christianity are common and quite central. It represents a kind of relation to Christianity and to being a believer...

Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)

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...The first Canadian country music star, Wilf Carter (known as Montana Slim in the United States), provided a link between country’s source material and its contemporary vogue. Born in 1904 in Nova Scotia, Carter’s family was poor and he...

Milton Brown

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...The bandleader and vocalist Milton Brown helped to develop the popular Western swing genre of the early twentieth century. Born in Texas in 1903, Brown graduated from high school and worked as a cigar salesman until the Great Depression...

Kerouac and Country Music

Matt Theado

Matt Theado

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Kerouac on Record : A Literary Soundtrack

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Country music is not a genre that comes immediately to mind when one reads Jack Kerouac’s work, nor is it a genre that seemed to appeal to him. Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road (1957), dismisses a radio programme that plays ‘cowboy...