{"product_id":"lessons-from-take-me-home-country-roads-identity-belonging-and-imagined-landscapes-paperback","title":"Lessons from Take Me Home, Country Roads: Identity, (Be)Longing, and Imagined Landscapes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah L. Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far from home. You may have sung along on a rooftop in Thailand, at Oktoberfest in Belgium, or with a Japanese cover band. It may have moved you to dance at a wedding or cry at a funeral. Regardless of where it plays, the song \"Take Me Home, Country Roads\" is ubiquitous, unmistakable, universal. Written and recorded by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver in 1971, the song continues to resonate across cultures and audiences, carrying meaning beyond naming and inviting transformation for a range of rhetorical purposes in nearly 300 recorded English versions and in more than 20 languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book examines \"Country Roads\" as it illuminates a universal sense of belonging to place even as it obscures the literality of the place it names. In examining \"Country Roads\" as anthem, text, artifact, and rhetoric, this work untangles ideas related to place, belonging, identity, and pedagogy. Sarah L. Morris uses the Welsh term \u003ci\u003ehiraeth\u003c\/i\u003e, which is an existential longing for an idealized, sometimes imaginary home, as a governing framework for this work. She explores the song in various contexts, such as how it pertains to West Virginia geography and heritage and the diversity of these beliefs, external perceptions of the state, concepts of home and belonging, and the song as a phenomenon across different media platforms. \"Take Me Home, Country Roads,\" while being about West Virginia, has registered as a global phenomenon.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far from home. It may have moved you to dance at a wedding or cry at a funeral. Regardless of where it plays, the song \"Take Me Home, Country Roads\" is ubiquitous, unmistakable, universal. Recorded by John Denver in 1971, the song continues to resonate across cultures and audiences in nearly 300 recorded English versions and in more than 20 languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sarah L. Morris examines \"Take Me Home, Country Roads\" as it illuminates a universal sense of belonging to place even as it obscures the literality of the place it names. She explores the song in various contexts, such as how it pertains to West Virginia geography and heritage and the diversity of these beliefs, external perceptions of the state, concepts of home and belonging, and the song as a phenomenon across different media platforms. \"Take Me Home, Country Roads,\" while being about West Virginia, has registered as a global phenomenon.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah L. Morris is assistant professor in the department of English and coordinator of undergraduate writing at West Virginia University. She is also co-director of WVU's National Writing Project. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336798757229,"sku":"9781959000549","price":41.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/6tDTRPIBuO9781959000549.webp?v=1778918700","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/lessons-from-take-me-home-country-roads-identity-belonging-and-imagined-landscapes-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}