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Article: Readin' Country Music: South Atlantic Quarterly, March 1995.
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- The Antioch Review
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- June 22, 1995
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The relationship between music and identity has gained considerable attention over the past 15 years. Culture critic Dick Hebdige established the foundation for this scholarship with the publication of Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). Since that time several musical genres have enjoyed popularity on the Billboard charts and in academic journals. From rap to MTV, from jazz to metal, from reggae to the recent interest in polka, increasingly this literature explores the identity dimensions involved in the production and consumption of specific kinds of popular music by ever wider listening and reading audiences. In his revised doctoral dissertation Barry Shank documents ...