Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
357 kr
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- LjudbokEngelska, 2022
396 kr
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The full and unbridled inside story of the last twenty years of country music through the lens of Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves—their peers and inspirations, their paths to stardom, and their battles against a deeply embedded boys’ club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place for all (and not just white men in trucker hats), as told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss.It was only two decades ago, but, for the women of country music, 1999 seems like an entirely different universe. With Shania Twain, country’s biggest award winner and star, and The Chicks topping every chart, country music was a woman’s world: specifically, country radio and Nashville’s Music Row.Cut to 2021, when women are only played on country radio 16% of the time, on a good day, and when only men have won Entertainer of the Year at the CMA Awards for a decade. To a world where artists like Kacey Musgraves sell out arenas but barely score a single second of airplay. But also to a world where these women are infinitely bigger live draws than most male counterparts, having massive pop crossover hits like Maren Morris’s “The Middle,” pushing the industry to confront its deeply embedded racial biases with Mickey Guyton’s “Black Like Me,” winning heaps of Grammy nominations, banding up in supergroups like The Highwomen and taking complete control of their own careers, on their own terms. When the rules stopped working for the women of country music, they threw them out and made their own: and changed the genre forever, and for better. Her Country is veteran Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss’s story of how in the past two decades, country’s women fought back against systems designed to keep them down, armed with their art and never willing to just shut up and sing: how women like Kacey, Mickey, Maren, The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandy Clark, LeAnn Rimes, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price and many more have reinvented the rules to find their place in an industry stacked against them, how they’ve ruled the century when it comes to artistic output—and about how women can and do belong in the mainstream of country music, even if their voices aren’t being heard as loudly.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Co.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
170 kr
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'The book is deeply researched...[a] history of the kind of industry - and world - that the white men of country music have always hoped to maintain and the women who wouldn't let them.' PitchforkIn country music, men might dominate the radio waves - but it's women like Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and Mickey Guyton who are making history.For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universe; a brief blip in time when musicians like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a woman's world. However, at the dawn of the millennium, the industry had begun to prefer its female stars more neutral and obedient.Her Country is the story of the rebels and rulebreakers who resisted the oppressive norms of the country music industry, achieving both critical and commercial success in a male-dominated genre. When the rules stopped working for these women, they threw them out, made their own and took control, changing the genre forever.Award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss powerfully documents how in the past two decades country's women have fought back against systems designed to keep them down, creating entirely new pathways to success.First published in 2022, Her Country anticipated the massive crossover and chart-conquering success of singers such as Ella Langley. Yet in 2024, female country artists received just 8.4 per cent of radio play, a decrease from 10 per cent in 2021, making Moss's prescient analysis as essential and urgent as ever.More than a story about inequity in the music business, Her Country offers an illuminating and astute examination of American society as a whole: how gender, race and class dynamics are manifested within art forms and how political power structures shape everyday life.
