Overview
In country music, the men might dominate the radio waves. But itās womenālike Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgravesāwho are making history.
This is the full and unbridled story of the past twenty years of country music seen through the lens of these trailblazersā careersātheir paths to stardom and their battles against a deeply embedded boysā club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive placeāas told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss.
For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universeāa brief blip in time, when women like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a womanās world. But the industry, which prefers its stars to be neutral, be obedient, and never rock the boat, had other plans. It wanted its women to āshut up and singāāor else.
In 2021, women are played on country radio as little as 10 percent of the time, but theyāre still selling out arenas, as Kacey Musgraves does, and becoming infinitely bigger live draws than most of their male counterparts, creating massive pop crossover hits like Maren Morrisās āThe Middle,ā pushing the industry to confront its racial biases with Mickey Guytonās āBlack Like Me,ā and winning heaps of Grammy nominations.
Her Country is the story of how in the past two decades, countryās women fought back against systems designed to keep them down and created entirely new pathways to success. Itās the behind-the-scenes story of how women like Kacey, Mickey, Maren, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandi Carlile, and many more have reinvented their place in an industry stacked against them. When the rules stopped working for these women, they threw them out, made their own, and took controlāchanging the genre forever, and for the better.
This book title, Her Country (How the Women of Country Music Busted Up the Old Boys Club) - 9781250871459, ISBN: 9781250871459, by Marissa R. Moss, published by Henry Holt and Co. (May 2, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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