In two decades working in the university I had found very little discussion of the different worlds of the American working and middle classes and the different logics that governed them. Nadine Hubbs: In Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music ( RQCM) I wanted to show the crucial differences between the two life-worlds I had experienced and come to know: the working-class world I had grown up in, and the middle-class world I had worked very hard to get into-but that was still in certain ways foreign to me, even as a tenured professor at the University of Michigan. What prompted you to write about country? ![]() ![]() The Spotify playlists posted here were curated by Hubbs, based on the music discussed in each chapter.ĭiane Pecknold: Your first book, The Queer Composition of America’s Sound, was about classical music. Here, Diane Pecknold discusses with Hubbs how class politics relate to discourses around music and sexuality, as well as to the motivations and difficulties surrounding the writing of the book. Nadine Hubbs’ Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) historicizes and challenges dominant narratives in the U.S. that imagine country music as a soundtrack to the supposed bigotry and homophobia of the white working class.
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