White trash alchemies of the abject sublime: Country as "bad" music

Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 39-61

  Fox, Aaron A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203309049     Document Type: Chapter

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