Almeda Bradshaw: Homes & Honky Tonks

MonDak kicks off Women’s History Month with “Homes & Honky Tonks: Post WWII Women in Country Music” by Almeda Bradshaw.
The musician combines history and music for an interesting and entertaining program! For working-class country folk, honky-tonk music became their voice of loneliness and alienation as men and women coped with the stress and adjustments of life after the atomic bomb. The suburban conformity of the 1950s, meant to help normalize the family unit, only contributed to feelings of victimization for both sexes. Examine how PTSD, then unrecognized, contributed to the dysfunction of families and learn how Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and others responded in their songs to the social changes of post-World War II America.
This program is free to the public thanks in part to Humanities Montana and their Montana Conversations program.