Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California
- Author: Chapelle, Peter La
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$42.25Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I . BIG CITY WAYS
- 1. At the Crossroads of Whiteness: Antimigrant Activism, Eugenics, and Popular Culture
- 2. Refugees: Woody Guthrie, "Lost Angeles," and the Radicalization of Migrant Identity
- 3. Rhythm Kings and Riveter Queens: Race, Gender, and the Eclectic Populism of Wartime Western Swing
- PART II . RHINESTONES AND RANCH HOMES
- 4. Ballads for the Crabgrass Frontier: Suburbanization, Whiteness, and the Unmaking of Okie Musical Ethnicity
- 5. Playing Second Fiddle No More? Country Music, Domesticity, and the Women's Movement
- 6. Fightin' Sides: "Okie from Muskogee," Conservative Populism, and the Uses of Migrant Identity Reprise: Dueling Populisms: The Okie Legacy in National and Regional Country Music Notes Selected
- Bibliography
- Index