ABSTRACT
Specific snapshots have been chosen to illustrate the relationship between each social category and the musical practices, often stressing the interaction of categories, such as race and class, or gender, race, and religion. The popular genre of country music intersects the world of work songs. Although many of the reader are familiar with the folk music revival of the 1960s, revivals take place in many varied musical and social contexts, such as the revival of the Russian balalaika orchestra presented. The concept of gender is generally understood to describe the means or systems by which cultures and social groups create, display, transmit, and enforce biological sexual difference; that is, gender theory describes how a culture makes sense of what it means to be male and female. Recent scholarship demonstrates how country music provides another means to explore the multiple intersections of gender, class, and race.
