{"product_id":"rednecks-queers-and-country-music-9780520280663","title":"Rednecks  Queers  and Country Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her provocative new book Rednecks  Queers  and Country Music  Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of Americas most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. 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.  In Hubbss view  the popular phrase Ill listen to anything but country allows middle-class Americans to declare inclusive omnivore musical tastes with one crucial exclusion: country  a music linked to low-status whites. Throughout Rednecks  Queers  and Country Music  Hubbs dissects this gesture  examining how provincial white working people have emerged since the 1970s as the face of American bigotry  particularly homophobia  with country music their audible emblem. 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. She particularly shows how dismissive  politically loaded middle-class discourses devalue countrys manifestations of working-class culture  politics  and values  and render working-class acceptance of queerness invisible.  Lucid  important  and thought-provoking  this book is essential reading for students and scholars of American music  gender and sexuality  class  and pop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651827490869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520280660","price":32.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520280663.jpg?v=1781841467","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rednecks-queers-and-country-music-9780520280663","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}