Country Music Tradition and Thomas Jefferson's Agricultural Ideal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11702943 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tricia Jenkins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-50 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-7766 • E-ISSN: 1740-1712 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03007760500167339 |
| OpenAlex | W2124397410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper explores the ways in which past and contemporary country musicians have both embraced and manipulated aspects of Thomas Jefferson's agrarian vision set forth in the 1780s, in order to advance artists' political agendas and personal careers. It also explores the reasons why Jefferson's vision is still embedded in the music tradition given the early realization that it would not work in the American South due to the region's plantation and slave‐based style of farming and the area's early industrialization. Notes 1. Even as early as 1910, when the first widely distributed anthology of “Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads” appeared, cowboy songs revolved around romantic images of cowboy life, including the love of roaming, freedom, the pioneering instinct, and their desire to reject the civilization of the East (CitationPeterson 82)
Aesthetics · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Art · Art history · Ballad · Civilization · CONTEST · Frontier · Ideal (ethics · Industrialisation · Literature · Order (exchange · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Style (visual arts · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |