Natural acts: gender, race, and rusticity in country music

Blacking up and dressing down : unmasking country music authenticity

Reluctant hillbillies : rube and blackface performance in the barn dance era

"After dark" : honky-tonk music, postwar modernity, and the masculinization of country identity

Coal miner's daughters : women (re)write authenticity in the country music autobiography

Revivals, survivals, and the future of authenticity : alternative country's reclamation of rusticity

Country girls, "unglamorous" mothers, and redneck women : the refeminization of authenticity in recent mainstream country.