Country Music Goes to War.(Book review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Country Music Goes to War. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 250. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2308-9.)

Country, Music Goes to War explores how war has been portrayed in country music, how war has shaped country music practice, and how country music is a war-inflected cultural site. Contributors to this collection of fourteen essays come from the fields of history, English, folklore, education, political science, ethnomusicology, and popular culture studies.

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