Chapters 1 and 5 are revised versions of essays previously published in the collected volumes Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850/2000, edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda Long (Nevada Humanities Committee, 2001), and A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music, edited by Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America 28 (2001): pp. 3/12.
Contents:
Big city ways. At the crossroads of whiteness : antimigrant activism, eugenics, and popular culture ; Refugees : Woody Guthrie, "Lost Angeles," and the radicalization of migrant identity ; Rhythm kings and riveter queens : race, gender, and the eclectic populism of wartime western swing -- Rhinstones and ranch homes. Ballads for the crabgrass frontier : suburbanization, whiteness and the unmaking of Okie musical ethnicity ; Playing second fiddle no more? : country music, domesticity, and the women's movement ; Fightin' sides : "Okie from Muskogee," conservative-populism, and the uses of migrant identity
