Right by Her Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs

General Index

223 ✻ ✻ ✻ General Index “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” 110 abstract and concrete songwriting, 45, 125, 167 abuse, 21, 42–44 activism, 81, 84, 94, 96, 99 Adams, Ryan, 24 addiction, 54, 111, 115, 118–19, 126, 163–64 adoption, 111, 112, 114, 115, 121, 126, 129, 130 Agape Force, 40 age, 8, 58, 64–65, 68, 70, 72, 82, 154, 158, 201–2 agency, 191, 172–74, 210 agnosticism, 17, 18 Air Supply, 181 Alcoholics Anonymous, 7, 114, 115, 121, 126, 222 Alden, Grant ,156, 211, 216, 217 alienation, 28, 66, 109, 111, 112, 115, 120, 125, 130, 165 all-female bands, 148–49, 186–88, 215 alt–country, 4, 62, 90 altruism, 62–63 “amen corner,” the, 150 Americana genre, 3, 4–5, 9, 33, 36, 44, 50, 144, 147, 210 ancestry, 2–3 Andalusia, 110 Andreassen, Kristin, 186–87 Angelou, Maya, 142 Anglo-Celtic music; see Appalachian music Anthology of American Folk Music, 184 Appalachia (region), 48, 212 Appalachian music, 44, 48, 49, 50, 180, 183, 186, 212 Apron Strings (radio show), 154 Arbus, Diane, 10 Armstrong, Louis, 119 224 ✻ General Index ✻ Atlantic Records, 137, 138, 139, 165 attitude toward religion, 17–20, 87, 95, 96, 103, 104, 121–22, 151 audience, 2, 7, 9, 15, 22–23, 26, 30–31, 34, 40, 42–43, 50, 58, 63–64, 70, 75, 79, 83, 87, 89, 99–100, 101–2, 104, 116, 125, 134, 142, 149–51, 166, 168, 175, 178–79, 186, 193–98, 211, 216 Austin, Texas, 14, 24, 39, 52, 131, 134, 144, 145 authority, 99, 104, 106, 123, 144; of experience, 23–24, 52–53, 63, 151 autobiographical songwriting, 3, 19–20, 58, 63, 87, 98, 117, 128– 30, 138–39, 158, 160, 163, 168, 189, 209, 213 baby boomers, 2 backlash, 21–22, 23, 83, 101–2, 210 Baker, Anita, 138 Band, The, 4, 90, 93 Banks, Samantha, 148–49 Barker, Hugh, 3, 30, 209, 211, 213, 215, 217 beauty, 142–43 Beijing Olympics, 188 Berry, Chuck, 137 Bittan, Roy, 22 blackface minstrelsy, 90–92, 102 Blake, Bishop Charles E., 95, 104, 105 Blakes, Raymond, 59 Blue Corn Music, 134 bluegrass, 1, 4, 50, 82, 90, 98–99, 173, 178, 180, 188, 190, 212 blues, 4, 13–15, 53, 89, 134, 149, 183, 213 blues divas, 15 “blues impulse,” 14 body, the, 54–55, 66–67, 125–26, 142–43, 146, 217 Braddock, Bobby, 157 Brooks & Dunn, 36 Brown, Bobby, 136 Brown, Clarence “Gatemouth,” 90 Buddhism, 185–86 Buffett, Jimmy, 119 Bufwack, Mary A., 165, 216, 217 Bull, Bart, 90 Burnett, T Bone, 49, 212 Caesar, Shirley, 135, 147 California, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 98, 110, 169 Cantwell, Robert, 2, 184, 209, 216, 218 career decisions, 5, 8, 21–23, 82–83, 94, 165–66 Carll, Hayes, 110 Carpenter, Mary Chapin, 12 Carroll, Tim, 155, 166, 172, 173, 175 Carter Family, 184 Case, Peter, 61, 212 Cassone, Cyd, 148 Catholicism, 18, 121–23 Chameleon Records, 12 change; transformation, 2, 6, 7, 8, 35, 36, 40–41, 76, 81, 83–84, 93–94, 95, 118, 121, 126, 143–46, 164–66, 178, 179, 181, 185, 186, 191, 192–94, 196–97, 202–3, 210–11 Chapman, Tracy, 138 Chinese: audience, 7; culture, 181, 186, 193, 194, 195; language, 1, 178, 180, 187, 191, 194; music, 177, 178, 191, 192, 195 choir, 83, 103, 105, 106, 133, 150, 182 church, 4, 17, 38, 39, 42–43, 53, 62, 78, 87, 95, 96, 99, 101, 103–6, 121, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 145, 147, 148, 150–51, 157, 159, 173, 174, 214 ✻ General Index ✻ 225 Church of God, 157, 159, 174 Church of God in Christ (COGIC), 95, 104–5, 214, 218 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 104 Civil Rights movement, 88, 148 Civil War, The, 157 Clark, Guy, 91 class, 48; blue-collar, 157, 167–68; middle-class, 2, 78, 167; poverty, 29, 48 clawhammer banjo, 177, 178, 187, 197 clogging, 153–54, 175, 187, 203 Cohen, Leonard, 124 community, 105, 125, 139, 184–85, 191; organizing, 96, 100 Cone, James H., 100, 214, 218 confessional songwriting; see autobiographical songwriting connectedness, 29, 115–16, 120–21, 125, 130, 177, 186 constructive theology, 6 contemporary Christian music, 33, 36, 44, 50, 211–12, 214, 219, 221 conversion experience, 7, 36, 62, 93, 103, 118; spiritual transformation , 121 conviction, 81, 94, 101–2, 103, 104, 133–34, 141 Cooke, Sam...