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Wrong’s What I do Best:

Hard Country Music and

Contemporary Culture

Barbara Ching

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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rong’s what I do best

Hard country music

and contemporary culture

Barbara Ching

2001

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ching, Barbara, 1958–

Wrong’s what I do best : hard country music and contemporary culture /

Barbara Ching.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-19-510835-3

1. Country music—History and criticism. I. Title: Hard country music and

contemporary culture. II. Title.

ML3524 .C54 2000

781.642—dc21

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Barbara Ching - Wrong's What I Do Best; Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture (2001).pdf