Finding Her Voice : Women in Country Music, 1800-2000

Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii 1 The Spirit of the Mountains Women in American Folk Music 3(18) 2 Southern Sentiments Country Females in Nineteenth-Century Show Business 21(22) 3 Single Girl, Married Girl The Carter Family and the Birth of Country Music Recording 43(20) 4 The National Barn Dance Country Women, Radio, and the Great Depression 63(30) 5 Hungry Disgusted Blues Women in Protest 93(14) 6 Hollywood Hayride Country Music Women in World War II 107(34) 7 Honky-Tonk Girl Kitty Wells and Her Postwar Sisters 141(30) 8 All-Day Sing Women and Southern Gospel Music 171(14) 9 Rockabilly Women Let's Have a Party 185(22) 10 The Nashville Sound Patsy Cline and the Grand Ole Opry 207(32) 11 The Folk Revival Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens 239(24) 12 You're Lookin' at Country Loretta Lynn and Working-Class Pride 263(18) 13 The Heroines of Heartbreak Tammy Wynette and Traditional Values 281(30) 14 Just Because I'm a Woman Dolly Parton and Her Savvy Sisters 311(24) 15 Hollywood Tennessee Barbara Mandrell and the Show Queens of Country Music 335(26) 16 Back to Country Emmylou Harris and the Country-Rock Fusion 361(30) 17 Little Darlin's Not My Name Women in Bluegrass 391(22) 18 Eighties Ladies and Beyond Images of or Modern Times 413(60) 19 Meeting the Millennium Female Country Triumphs 473(36) Bibliography 509(74) Index 583(24) Photo Credits 607