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Popular Music and Society Volume 42, 2019 - Issue 4
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Whistlin’ Past Graveyards: The Drive-By Truckers and Southern Identity

Chandler Harriss Department of Communication, The University of Tennessee , Chattanooga, TN, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 419-437 | Published online: 18 May 2018
 
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Abstract

Through their discursive participation, rock musicians work to shape and reshape perceptions of identity and place. It is within these spaces that this essay considers the work of a deeply southern band, the Drive-By Truckers. Using three dimensions of Jeanne Hurlbert’s test of southern distinctiveness as overlapping lenses, the study undertakes a sociolinguistic analysis of the band’s music and history to draw a complex picture of the American South, its inhabitants, and their mindsets.

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