Johnny Cash and the paradox of American identity / Leigh H. Edwards.

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Superior document:Profiles in popular music
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Profiles in popular music.
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Physical Description:xi, 241 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Cash as contradiction
  • "What is truth?" : authenticity and persona
  • "A boy named Sue" : American manhood
  • Gender and "the beast in me" : ramblers and rockabillies authenticity and persona
  • Race and identity politics
  • Man in black : class and national mythologies
  • The gospel road : Cash as saint and sinner
  • Conclusion : "God's gonna cut you down" : cultural legacies.