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Muzzling Fertilizer Fred: Suburbanization, Corporate Centralism, and the Depoliticization of the Country Music Medium Muzzling Fertilizer Fred: Suburbanization, Corporate Centralism, and the Depoliticization of the Country Music Medium
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“pleases More Than ‘sooners’”: Status Anxiety and the Unmaking of Okie Ethnicity “pleases More Than ‘sooners’”: Status Anxiety and the Unmaking of Okie Ethnicity
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Country Music Conservatism, Singing-cowboy Stars, and the Westernization of Migrant Political Identity Country Music Conservatism, Singing-cowboy Stars, and the Westernization of Migrant Political Identity
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“Honky”-Tonkin': Class, Whiteness, and the Camouflaging of Difference in Country Musical Style and Dress “Honky”-Tonkin': Class, Whiteness, and the Camouflaging of Difference in Country Musical Style and Dress
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4 Ballads for the Crabgrass Frontier: Suburbanization, Whiteness, and the Unmaking of Okie Musical Ethnicity
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Published:April 2007
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Abstract
This chapter argues that pressure to fit in was an important impetus for the rightward turn in country music. Consumers, sponsors, and musical producers strived in the mid- to late 1950s to rehabilitate local country music's hayseed image and disassociate the genre from the Depression-era anti-Okie campaign and its lingering stigma by downplaying working-class and Okie identity, discouraging liberal-populist political dissent and stressing how elements of the music culture could convey social status. While this muzzled some performers, it also provided room for a small group of wealthy, well-connected performers—especially some of the 1930s cinematic singing cowboys—to come to the forefront and present themselves as antielitist spokesmen for a new, conservative cultural populism.
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