Date of Award
1-1-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Music
First Advisor
John J. Sheinbaum, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Antonia Banducci
Third Advisor
Sarah Morelli
Fourth Advisor
Bernadette Calafell
Keywords
Country music, Feminism, Gender, Music, Popular music, Women
Abstract
This thesis examines songs about cheating performed by women in country music that appeared on year-end country songs charts in Billboard magazine from 1962 through 2015. The study of a total of fifty qualifying songs included a focus on their lyrical and musical content, the performers' personae and careers, and the way the particular outside factors of feminism and changing gender relations in American society may have influenced them. These songs do not show a purely linear progression of or emphasis on social change, in spite of country music's pride in conveying the truth about the lives of its songwriters, performers, and audience members. Rather, country's hit cheating songs by women indicate that unique factors including and in addition to feminism and social change influence each song individually.
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Morrow, Madeline Rachel, "Women's Hit Cheating Songs: Country Music and Feminist Change in American Society, 1962-2015" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1258.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1258
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Rights holder
Madeline Rachel Morrow
File size
150 p.
Copyright date
2017
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
Music, Gender Studies, Modern History