White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans

by Tex Sample

White Soul examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans. Country music gives voice to an economically battered subculture of hard-living and hard-working people who find self-expression in the music of honky-tonks and heartaches. It celebrates the "wild side of life" as a form of populist anarchism and escapist festivity. This unusual medley of sociology, theology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687032938
• ISBN13: 9780687032938
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

White Soul revealed

Book is designed to use country music to give insight to the southern blue collar culture, how ever I found that in addition to accomplishing it's task, it also gave me insight and awaking to my own values and heritage in ways I had not anticipated.