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Proud to be an Okie : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / Peter La Chapelle

La Chapelle, Peter,i1970- [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 350 pages) : Illustrations, maps

American crossroads ; 22

Chapters 1 and 5 are revised versions of essays previously published in the collected volumes Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850/2000, edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda Long (Nevada Humanities Committee, 2001), and A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America 28 (2001): pp. 3/12

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index

978-0-520-94000-0 ; 0-520-94000-8 ; 978-1-4294-6794-0 ; 1-4294-6794-0 ; 0-520-90402-8 ; 978-0-520-90402-6 ; 978-0-520-24888-5

LS 48000

 

Kalifornien  Politik  Countrymusic  Popkultur  Geschichte 1900-2000 

 

'Proud to be an Okie' brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s.