Journal article
Duets and the Demands of Country Music: Contradictory Feminisms in Nashville
Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.55(2), pp.350-372
2022
Abstract
The television series Nashville (ABC 2012–16, CMT 2016–18) is set in the country music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, and centers on performers at different stages of their careers. When it debuted in the United States in 2012, Nashville was marketed by ABC as a women-centric melodrama telling authentic stories of the music industry with songwriting credibility. Created, written, and directed by the Academy Award winning writer of Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott 1991), Callie Khouri, Nashville was endorsed and partially funded by the city of Nashville and featured original songs written by local songwriters. The promotional posters for Nashville starred the two lead characters—Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton) and Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettierre)—with big hair and tight, sparkly clothes. Owing to its primetime soap opera genre, lead characters, casting, and authorship, Nashville circulates as a women-empowered, feminist-leaning series (Dean; Flavorwire; Hughes; Shanker; Stanford). It was hailed by some critics as a win for older women, as it featured a female lead over the age of forty who was depicted as vibrant, sexual, and in charge of her career (Dominus; Kelly and Seltzer; Stanford).
Details
- Title
- Duets and the Demands of Country Music: Contradictory Feminisms in Nashville
- Authors
- Phoebe Macrossan (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesJessica Ford (Author) - University of Newcastle Australia
- Publication details
- Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.55(2), pp.350-372
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1111/jpcu.13124
- ISSN
- 1540-5931
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99625241002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web Of Science research areas
- Cultural Studies
- Humanities, Multidisciplinary