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White Soul examines the social, political, and religious foundations of country music as the soul music of white, working-class Americans. Country music gives voice to an economically battered subculture of hard-living and hard-working people who find self-expression in the music of honky-tonks and heartaches. It celebrates the "wild side of life" as a form of populist anarchism and escapist festivity. This unusual medley of sociology, theology, and country music history is also a compelling critique of the elitism of "good taste" in the dominant culture. Tex Sample challenges the church to reach out to working-class people, who have often been ignored and demeaned by churches held captive to the tastes and lifestyles of the upper middle class.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: White Soul
• Subtitle: Country Music, the Church and Working Americans
• Author: Sample, Tex, Ph.D
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780687032938
• ISBN: 9780687032938
• ID: 08880443
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 1996

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