Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920s career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50s honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride's Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more.
Table of Contents
Polly Jenkins and her musical plowboys: a vaudeville valedictory / Wayne W. Daniel -- "And no man shall control me": the strange case of Roba Stanley, country's first woman recording star / Charles Wolfe -- "Do you want mustard?" "Yup!": first lady of banjo Roni Stoneman / Ellen Wright -- Getting the word out: the country of Bronwen Wallace and Emmylou Harris / Gloria Nixon-John -- Rose Lee Maphis and working on barn dance radio, 1930-1960 / Kristine McCusker -- "Reconsider Me": Margaret Lewis Warwick and the Louisiana Hayride / Tracey E.W. Laird -- Home to Renfro Valley: John Lair and the women of the barn dance / Michael Ann Williams -- The voice behind the song: Faith Hill, country music, and reflexive identity / Jocelyn Neal -- The cow that's ugly has the sweetest milk / Rebecca Thomas -- Women in Texas music: a conversation with the Texana dames / Kathleen Hudson -- If you're not in it for love: Canadian women in country music / Linda Jean Daniel -- The yodeling cowgirls: Australian women and country music / Andrew Smith -- Teaching about women in country music / James Akenson.