"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion

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Published: December 2011
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“In 2004 Gretchen Wilson exploded onto the country music scene with ‘Redneck Woman.’ The blockbuster single led to the early release of her first CD and propelled it to triple platinum sales.”

Gretchen Wilson celebrates a new kind Virile Woman on the country music scene—but this subtle gender analysis reveals much more than immediately meets the eye.

This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures.

Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South.

About the Author

Nadine Hubbs teaches Women’s Studies and Music at the University of Michigan and is author of The Queer Composition of America’s Sound (California, 2004) on the Copland-Thomson circle of gay U.S. musical modernists. She is completing a book called Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, which contemplates provincial, working class, and queer intersections by listening to country songs.
For more information about Nadine Hubbs, visit the Author Page.