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Playing Chicken With the Train: Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West

Playing Chicken With the Train: Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West essay .................... Playing Chicken With the Train Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West by Adam Gussow There was no necessary reason why Cowboy Troy Coleman's country-rap single, "I Play Chicken With the Train," should have caused such an uproar among country music fans when it was released in the spring of 2005. Cowboy Troy, 2005, photographed by Angie Ambrosio, courtesy of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. "[S]uch fiddling and dancing nobody ever before saw in this world. I thought they were the true `heaven-borns.' Black and white, white and black, all hugemsnug together; happy as lords and ladies, sitting sometimes round in a ring, with a jug of liquor between them . . ." --Davy Crockett (1834) "There ain't nothing like a good, solid ride. I don't care where you are or who you are. It's just like music--smooth and perfect if you do it right." --bull rider Alonzo Pettie (1910­2003), "America's oldest black cowboy" at the time of his death "My belt buckle is my bling-bling. It's just going to keep getting bigger." --Cowboy Troy (2005) 1 B lac k h i l l B i l l i e s a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Playing Chicken With the Train: Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West

Gussow, Adam.
Southern Cultures , Volume 16 (4) – Nov 7, 2010
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essay .................... Playing Chicken With the Train Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West by Adam Gussow There was no necessary reason why Cowboy Troy Coleman's country-rap single, "I Play Chicken With the Train," should have caused such an uproar among country music fans when it was released in the spring of 2005. Cowboy Troy, 2005, photographed by Angie Ambrosio, courtesy of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. "[S]uch fiddling and dancing nobody ever before saw in this world. I thought they were the true `heaven-borns.' Black and white, white and black, all hugemsnug together; happy as lords and ladies, sitting sometimes round in a ring, with a jug of liquor between them . . ." --Davy Crockett (1834) "There ain't nothing like a good, solid ride. I don't care where you are or who you are. It's just like music--smooth and perfect if you do it right." --bull rider Alonzo Pettie (1910­2003), "America's oldest black cowboy" at the time of his death "My belt buckle is my bling-bling. It's just going to keep getting bigger." --Cowboy Troy (2005) 1 B lac k h i l l B i l l i e s a

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