Pure country

Pure Land Buddhism uses the term jinen rather than shizen to refer to the supernatural power of Amida’s compassion that facilitates rebirth in the Pure Land. Often dismissed as unr...

This chapter explores how the Country Music Association and the Country Music Foundation have shaped the telling of country music history. It traces the development of the Foundati...

Abstract “What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?” T...

Timothy Dodge explores African American interest in and participation in country music dates from the earliest days of the recording industry’s racial segregation of vernacular mus...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...

The key to understanding the vast majority of sacred expression in country music is understanding the gospel song and the religious developments for which it was the primary musica...

This chapter provides an overview of country music and visual style from the genre’s inception to the present day. Examining how country music performers have navigated gender expe...

This chapter looks at how country and western music has provided a way of making a living for several thousand people in New England over the course of the music's history in the r...