Everybody's Lonesome for Somebody
Age, the body and experience in the music of Hank Williams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7976281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Leppert (The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature), George Lipsitz |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-274 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143000004086 |
| OpenAlex | W2134022066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Houston Baker locates the blues at the crossroads of lack and desire, at the place where the hurts of history encounter determined resistance from people who know they are entitled to something better (Baker 1984, pp. 7, 150). Like the blues singers from whom he learned so much, Hank Williams (1923 to 1953) spent a lot of time at that particular intersection. There he met others whose own struggles informed and shaped his music. Williams's voice expressed the contradictions of his historical moment – post Second World War America – a time when diverse currents of resistance to class, race and gender oppressions flowed together to form a contradictory, but nonetheless real, unity of opposites. Standing at a crossroads in history, at a fundamental turning point for relationships between men and women, whites and blacks, capital and labour, Williams's songs about heartbreak and failed personal relations indentified the body and the psyche as crucial terrains of political struggle in the post-war era
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2013 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |