White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans
White Soul examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans. Country music gives voice to an economically battered subculture of hard-living and hard-working people who find self-expression in the music of honky-tonks and heartaches. It celebrates the "wild side of life" as a form of populist anarchism and escapist festivity. This unusual medley of sociology, theology, and country music history is also a compelling critique of the elitism of "good taste" in the dominant culture. Tex Sample challenges the church to reach out to working-class people, who have often been ignored and demeaned by churches held captive to the tastes and lifestyles of the upper middle class.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0687032938
ISBN13:9780687032938
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:Abingdon Press
Length:212 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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White Soul revealed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Book is designed to use country music to give insight to the southern blue collar culture, how ever I found that in addition to accomplishing it's task, it also gave me insight and awaking to my own values and heritage in ways I had not anticipated.
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