Class, Culture, Representation

Week 5 Day 1 Discussion Question 5

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Both rhythm and blues fans and country music fans were attracted to their respective music genres because the music resonated with their experiences of migration, social dislocation, and alienated labor.  In your response, discuss how workers’ class-specific struggles were reflected in postwar rhythm and blues and/or country music.

Author: Holly Allen

I am an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Middlebury College. I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, gender studies, disability, and consumer culture.

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