This week we’re diving into Rednecks, Queers, & Country Music by Nadine Hubbs. Hubbs argues that the white middle class has villainized country music as a way of distancing themselves from the white working class and that while the middle class portrays sex and gender deviance as new social advances encouraged by the middle class, this sex-gender deviance has only recently moved out of a century-long period of forced allyship with the working class.

Summary of the book (4:35)

Our key takeaways (6:20)

Our favorite quotes (18:00)

What questions do we still have? (58:00)

References: Blake Shelton's Minimum Wage

What to check out next: Mollie and Kate's Anything, Including Country Spotify playlist.

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