Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the late 1960s. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.
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"Proud to be an Okie is a fresh, well-researched, wonderfully insightful, and imaginative book. Throughout, La Chapelle's keen attention to shifting geographies and urban and suburban spaces is one of the work's real strengths. Another strength is the book's focus on dress, ethnicity, and the manufacturing of style. When all of these angles and insights are pulled together, La Chapelle delivers a fascinating rendering of Okie life and American culture."--Bryant Simon, author of Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
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Peter La Chapelle is Assistant Professor of History at Nevada State College in Henderson, Nevada.
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antimigrant activists, migrant music, country music culture, western swing musicians, local country music, country music industry, western swing bands, migrant identity, country performers, economic populism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Southern California, Big City Ways, Dust Bowlers, African American, New York, Woody Guthrie, New Deal, Spade Cooley, Native American, Long Beach, Bell Gardens, World War, Roy Rogers, Santa Monica, Lone Wolf, Tex Williams, Tex Ritter, Capitol Records, Hank Thompson, San Fernando Valley, Country Song Roundup, West Coast, Playing Second Fiddle No More, New Right Browse Sample Pages:
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antimigrant activists, migrant music, country music culture, western swing musicians, local country music, country music industry, western swing bands, migrant identity, country performers, economic populism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Southern California, Big City Ways, Dust Bowlers, African American, New York, Woody Guthrie, New Deal, Spade Cooley, Native American, Long Beach, Bell Gardens, World War, Roy Rogers, Santa Monica, Lone Wolf, Tex Williams, Tex Ritter, Capitol Records, Hank Thompson, San Fernando Valley, Country Song Roundup, West Coast, Playing Second Fiddle No More, New Right Browse Sample Pages:
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