List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. BIG CITY WAYS 1. At the Crossroads of Whiteness: Antimigrant Activism, Eugenics, and Popular Culture 2. Refugees: Woody Guthrie, "Lost Angeles," and the Radicalization of Migrant Identity 3. Rhythm Kings and Riveter Queens: Race, Gender, and the Eclectic Populism of Wartime Western Swing PART II. RHINESTONES AND RANCH HOMES 4. Ballads for the Crabgrass Frontier: Suburbanization, Whiteness, and the Unmaking of Okie Musical Ethnicity 5. Playing Second Fiddle No More? Country Music, Domesticity, and the Women's Movement 6. Fightin' Sides: "Okie from Muskogee," Conservative Populism, and the Uses of Migrant Identity Reprise: Dueling Populisms: The Okie Legacy in National and Regional Country Music Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Peter La Chapelle is Assistant Professor of History at Nevada State College in Henderson, Nevada.
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