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Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre's power and mystique

Country musicians --- Women country musicians --- Sex role in music.

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Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920's career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50's honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride's Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more.

Country music --- Women country musicians --- Country musicians --- Women musicians --- History and criticism.

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"Looks at the careers of artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music's golden age. Analyzing recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television, Stephanie Vander Wel connects performances to real and imagined places and examines how the music sparked new ways for women listeners to imagine the open range, the honky-tonk, and the home. The music also captured the tensions felt by women facing geographic disruption and economic uncertainty. While classic songs and heartfelt performances might ease anxieties, the subject matter underlined women's ambivalent relationships to industrialism, middle-class security, and established notions of femininity"--

Women country musicians --- Radio and music --- Music and radio --- Music --- Country musicians --- Women musicians --- History --- Wells, Kitty. --- Montana, Patsy. --- Maddox, Rose. --- Lulu Belle, --- WLS (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)