

Abstract: A defense of the proposition that country music, as a genre defined by fiddle, steel guitar, and the working-class tradition, concluded its final decade in 1999. What followed was something else, by other names, in tighter clothes.


Abstract: A defense of the proposition that country music, as a genre defined by fiddle, steel guitar, and the working-class tradition, concluded its final decade in 1999. What followed was something else, by other names, in tighter clothes.