Real Country : Music and Language in Working-Class Culture

Preface ix A Note on Transcription Conventions xiii Prelude: "Turns" 1(19) 1 Voicing Working-Class Culture 20(26) 2 Knowing Lockhart: Two Perspectives 46(28) 3 "Out the Country": Space, Time, and Stereotype 74(33) 4 "The Fool in the Mirror": Self, Person, and Subjectivity 107(45) 5 "Feeling" and "Relating": Speech, Song, Story, and Emotion 152(41) Interlude: Photo Essay 193(21) 6 "Bring Me Up in a Beer Joint": The Poetics of Speech and Song 214(35) 7 "The Women Take Care of That": Engendering Working-Class Culture 249(23) 8 The Art of Singing: Speech and Song in Performance 272(28) 9 "I Hang My Head and Cry": The Character of the Voice 300(17) Coda: Indigenous to Modernity 317(6) Notes 323(26) References 349(8) Appendix 357(2) Index 359