...Don Cusic Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Don Cusic Country Green: The Money in Country Music In 1979 Wal-Mart sold one billion dollars worth of merchandise in its 230 stores; by 1989 there were 1,402 stores, with sales total­ ing $8.1 billion. These simple facts also per­...

...Irene Watson The laws of first peoples are connected to our traditional lands. The colonial project dispossesses us of land, but our laws are often still carried with us. These Aboriginal laws become like us, the native peoples, disconnected from country. So how is it possible for first peoples...

...Curtis W. Ellison Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Curtis W. Ellison Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music It s Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The date is 22 Janu­ ary 1994, and country music fans, artists, family, friends...

...Michael Kurek; Cecelia Tichi Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Michael Kurek and Cecelia Tichi Country Music and the Contemporary Composer: The Case of Paul Martin Zonn In 1981, Joel Krosnick, cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet, commissioned a work from composer Paul Martin...

...David Sanjek Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 David Sanjek Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising Over the Mystery Train: The Complex Construction of Country Music Somebody told me when I came to Nashville Son you finally got it made Old Hank made it here We re all sure that you...

...Vivien Green Fryd Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Vivien Green Fryd The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices : Thomas Hart Benton s Sources of Country Music In December 1934, Time magazine applauded Thomas Hart Benton as a Regionalist painter whose dynamic narrative, figurative paint­...

...Ronnie Pugh Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Ronnie Pugh Mecca for the Country Music Scholar l^ownstairs in one of America s most fa­ mous tourist attractions, Nashville s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, is housed an unmatched collection of research materi­ als...

...Teresa Goddu Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Teresa Goddu Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music Cecelia Tichi: But you re talking about country. I mean, I ve heard some of those traditional old songs you have called Appalachian dead-baby songs. So...

...Cecelia Tichi Cecelia Tichi Country Music, Seriously: An Interview with Bill C. Malone Since the 1960s, Bill C. Malone s name has been synonymous with country music studies. His lifelong love affair" with the music re­ sulted first in the 1968 publication of the semi­ nal Country Music U. S.A...

...Christopher Metress Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Christopher Metress Sing Me a Song about Ramblin Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music To get there you take I-65 straight south out of Nashville. The ride is good and gentle, and before you know it you...

...Richard A. Peterson Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Richard A. Peterson The Dialectic of Hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country Music ^Conventional histories of twentieth-cen­ tury country music trace a virtually linear development from folk-like to commercial and pop-like music...

...Paul A. Cantor Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Paul A. Cantor Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee s In the Heart of the Country If I had been set down by fate in the middle of the veld in the middle of nowhere, buried to my waist and commanded to live a life, I could...

...Caroline Rody Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Caroline Rody The Mad Colonial Daughter s Revolt: J. M. Coetzee s In the Heart of the Country In the annals of English imperial literature, perhaps no white female character plays a more unfortunate or predictable role than...

...Robert H. Woody 162 The South Atlantic Quarterly Smoky Mountain Country. By North Callahan. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. Pp. xii, 257. $4.00. This is a mildly interesting mixture of anecdote, reminiscence, and regional history. It is one of a series called...

...Robert S. Smith Sugar Country: The Cane Sugar Industry in the South, 1753-1950 . By Sitterson J. Carlyle . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1953 . Pp. ix , 414 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly war to Pearl...

...Harry R. Stevens The Western Country in 1793: Reports on Kentucky and Virginia by Harry Toulmin . Edited by Tinling Marion Davies Godfrey . San Marino, California : Henry E. Huntington Library , 1948 . Pp. xx , 141 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949...

...D. Huger Bacot Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The South Carolina Middle Country at the End of the Eighteenth Century D. Huger Bacot Knox College The middle region of South Carolina is the stretch of rolling territory, extending from the swampy, flooded tidewater belt...

...Wilson Gee Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Contribution of the Country-Side Wilson Gee University of Virginia I For the first time in the history of our nation, the city dwellers outnumber those who live in the country sections. The total population of the United States...

...Tom Conley 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Tom Conley L’absent de Paris: In the Savage Country Michel de Certeau is known for a manner...

...W. A. Mabry The Chattanooga Country, 1540-1951 . By Govan Gilbert E. Livingood James W. . New York : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1952 . Pp. 509 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...