Her Country: How Women Reclaimed Country Music

'The book is deeply researched...[a] history of the kind of industry - and world - that the white men of country music have always hoped to maintain and the women who wouldn't let them.' PitchforkIn country music, men might dominate the radio waves - but it's women like Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and Mickey Guyton who are making history. For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universe; a brief blip in time when musicians like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a woman's world.However, at the dawn of the millennium, the industry had begun to prefer its female stars more neutral and obedient. Her Country is the story of the rebels and rulebreakers who resisted the oppressive norms of the country music industry, achieving both critical and commercial success in a male-dominated genre.When the rules stopped working for these women, they threw them out, made their own and took control, changing the genre forever. Award-winning Na