Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Hubbs Nadine

Author:Hubbs, Nadine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520280656
Publisher: University of California Press

1978 J. UPDIKE Coup v. 192 Her momma’s a washrag and her daddy’s a redneck.

1974 New Yorker 25 Feb. 102/3 He seems Southern redneck—a common man who works outdoors in the sun—to the soul.10

Prior to the 2004 release of “Redneck Woman,” a turn-of-the-millennium redneck craze had brought to a head three decades of redneck pride. It created an audience for representations of redneck identity perceived as funny or telling while retrenching its male image. Gender is thus foregrounded in “Redneck Woman” beginning at the title, where cross-paired identities create a stereotype-jolting effect like that of “female surgeon” or “lady plumber.” Here begins, too, the foregrounding of class and its entanglement with gender. Listeners are likely to be drawn into “Redneck Woman” by the implications of the title, including the implication that the song might shed some light on its gender- and class-freighted contradictions. And it does, through both music and lyrics, in ways that I will examine in some detail. Before opening that examination involving interlinked issues of gender, class, and country music, it will be useful to engage some existing dialogues around and within these three domains, as found in scholarship and in country songs themselves.

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