The Women's Review of Books, December 1st, 2000
Alt-country musicians transcend country music stereotypes
American country music (once known as "country and western") justly claims its origins in Celtic and Appalachian balladry and in its cousinly relation to folk music, gospel and blues, as well as some Tin Pan Alley tunes of the late nineteenth century. Historians and ethnomusicologist have traced this complex lineage and compiled a sizable literature.
Within the hierarchy of American music, however, country perennially struggles for status and legitimacy. Its longtime identification with lower-class whites tends continually to raise ...
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