Introduction / Cecelia Tichi

Sing me a song about ramblin' man : visions and revisions of Hank Williams in country music / Christopher Metress

Blue moon of Kentucky rising over the mystery train : the complex construction of country music / David Sanjek

Bloody daggers and lonesome graveyards : the gothic and country music / Teresa Goddu

A musical legacy, a way of life : a photo essay / Charmaine Lanham

Commercial (and/or?) folk : the bluegrass industry and bluegrass traditions / Mark Fenster

Mountains of contradictions : gender, class, and region in the star image of Dolly Parton / Pamela Wilson

Keeping faith : evangelical performance in country music / Curtis W. Ellison

Girls with guitars

and fringe and sequins and rhinestones, silk, lace, and leather / Mary A. Bufwack

Event songs / Charles K. Wolfe

Country green : the money in country music / Don Cusic

Country music and the contemporary composer : the case of Paul Martin Zonn / Michael Kurek and Cecelia Tichi

"My name is Sue! How do you do?" : Johnny Cash as lesbian icon / Teresa Ortega

The dialectic of hard-core and soft-shell country music / Richard A. Peterson

"The sad twang of mountain voices" : Thomas Hart Benton's Sources of country music / Vivien Green Fryd

Mecca for the country music scholar / Ronnie Pugh

Country music, seriously : an interview with Bill C. Malone / Cecelia Tichi

Reading the row / Christine Kreyling

The metric makings of a country hit / Jocelyn Neal

"The voice of woe" : Willie Nelson and evangelical spirituality / T. Walter Herbert

"I'll reap my harvest in heaven" : Fred Rose's acquaintance with country music / John W. Rumble

Jim Crow and the pale maiden : gender, color, and class in Stephen Foster's "Hard times" / Amy Schrager Lang.