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Understanding the relationship between data and the lack of diversity and equity in country music

These are multiple works of genre history and works tackling important issues of race, class, and gender. All challenge dominant narratives of music.

Miko Marks latest album is Our Country. Throughout her career, shes deepened her connection to her ancestors while elaborating on the possibilities of all the styles that speak to her. Beto Lopez / Courtesy of the artist In the 167 years since the Stephen Foster-penned sheet music for "Hard Times Come Again No More" went on the market, the parlor song has been done, and done, and done again, by performers of numerous generations and styles, long ago passing into the desensitizing familiar...