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Colloquially written, in an often engaging style more reminiscent of contemporary journalism than standard scholarly research, this is the account of Hilton's determination to 'winkle out' (23) Baudelaire's secret, breaking through a reserve he reads as 'typically English�...

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Published in:Biography (Honolulu) 2006-09, Vol.29 (4), p.762-805
Main Authors: Altizer, Nell, Bell, Alana, Coullie, Judith Lutge, Fassiotto, Michael, Garneau, Marie-Christine, Garneau, Theo, Kent, Noel, Lee, John W.I, Merle, Gabriel, Morais, Dawn, Peterson, Barbara Bennett, Wenderoth, Valeria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antrim, Donald
Biographies
Biography
Classroom communication
Criticism and interpretation
Dialects
English language
Grammaticality
Music
Reading
Stereotypes
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Summary:Colloquially written, in an often engaging style more reminiscent of contemporary journalism than standard scholarly research, this is the account of Hilton's determination to 'winkle out' (23) Baudelaire's secret, breaking through a reserve he reads as 'typically English' (23). . . . An ethnology of a small-town bar in Texas, Real Country explores the complicated relationships between country music and its audience, focusing on how language and sound, through both the mediums of music and everyday speech, permeate the lives of the citizens of Lockhart, Texas. . . . [T]his book stands as a testimony to the richness, grammaticality, and rhetorical brilliance of even 'average' working-class Texas English discourse, and no attentive reader can fail to take from this book a case for respecting the beauty, the skillfulness, and power of a dialect that is so often stereotyped as 'illiterate' and 'ignorant' (p. xv).
ISSN:0162-4962
1529-1456
1529-1456
DOI:10.1353/bio.2007.0011