CSPAN3 Colonial America Race And The Origins Of Country Music June 1, 2017
Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical cultu...