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<p>"'All I gotta do is act naturally,' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.country, <i>Natural Acts</i> lays bare, with wide-ranging scholarship and incisive analysis, the ideologies of authenticity on which country music rests. As engrossing and useful as any book I know on country music."<br> ---Eric Lott, author of <i>Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class</i></p> <p>"The first completely mature book of country music historical criticism. It is a deep investigation of country music's power to articulate the displaced pleasures and anxieties of a society wracked by structural change. Historically rigorous, Fox uncovers documents that demonstrate the ongoing power of minstrelsy in barn dance programs across the country past World War II; musically and lyrically astute, she shows how the best honky-tonk music simultaneously critiques the dangers of that setting while seductively luring listeners to those sawdust and alcohol drenched environments; with her ear attuned to the formal complexities of autobiography, Fox directs our attention to the contradictory performance of identity that charac

Author

Fox, Pamela, 1958-

Publisher

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472070688

Subjects

Music, History, Arts