Country Music – US Represented

Heir to Springsteen: Eric Church and the American Psyche

I teach a college course called United States History Since 1945. It’s a fun class because the students and I get to reflect on U.S. social, political, economic, and military history of the last seventy odd years. It’s one of those classes where I can show the hilarious episode of I Love Lucy called “Job […]

Redneck Chic and the Return of Gretchen Wilson

Americana, Analysis, Biography, Creative Nonfiction, Dana Zimbleman, Information, Music, Nonfiction / By Dana Zimbleman

I think I am only slightly exaggerating when I say that being a redneck is sort of fashionable right now. Ever since the white working class proved decisive in the 2016 presidential election, both major parties are re-evaluating their relationship with an “embarrassing” voting bloc they believed they could ignore with impunity. However, over a

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