ABSTRACT
This chapter examines parodies of country music in the work of some British Invasion groups of the 1960s: the Incredible String Band’s “Log Cabin Home in the Sky,” the Kinks’ “Willesden Green,” the Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon,” and the Rolling Stones’ “Dear Doctor.” These songs deliver a hyperbolic, self-consciously comic parody of music hall and Western movie versions of country music, which in its origins sometimes carried survivals of ancestral, immigrant voices. Their second-order parody emerged from a utopian ideal of America viewed from a perspective of postwar trauma in a land of lost childhood.
