Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music

Bringing together the redneck and the queer, Hubbs challenges the conventional wisdom and historical amnesia that frame white working folk as a perpetual bigot class. With a powerful combination of music criticism, cultural critique, and sociological analysis of contemporary class formation, Nadine Hubbs zeroes in on flawed assumptions about how country music models and mirrors white working-class identities. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics. Lucid, important, and thought-provoking, this book is essenti

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"Extremely well researched, with many valuable insights. Very" according to Louie Edmundson. Extremely well researched, with many valuable insights. Very dense in style, almost but not quite crossing the line into sociological jargon.. Sarah Peller said presenting a great deal of evidence suggesting that working class America is. "Rednecks" is musical history that tells the story of the cultural creation of the powerful American middle class (the "narrating" class) using the concept of taste, detailing how although the middle class has become musically omnivorous of late, distaste for country music in particular defines this cult