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Country Music Is Changing, in Spite of Itself

No music genre is as beholden to corporate radio as country music, and no form of music media is as conservative, aesthetically and politically, as corporate radio. Put two and two together, and it makes sense that no genre is more conservative than country music made for the radio—an assembly-line product stuffed with references to patriotism and pickups, built by a massive industry centered in Nashville. That conventional wisdom accounts for the wide swaths of people whose response to seeing video of rising country star Morgan Wallen using the n-word last month was: “Is anyone surprised?”
The country industry’s answer to that question was both yes and no. As stars like Mickey Guyton and Maren Morris quickly pointed out, there’s at least a century’s worth of evidence that the genre was built by overt racism and discrimination—to paraphrase them, Wallen’s racism

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Morgan Wallen's radio ban cracks as Knoxville station plays his music

Morgan Wallen's radio ban cracks as Knoxville station plays his music
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Morgan Wallen's radio ban in the wake of his racial slur controversy may have begun to crack after a station in his hometown began playing his music again.
Knoxville, Tennessee's WMYL-FM began putting Wallen's music on the air again after a Facebook poll created by the station showed 92 percent of respondents wanted his music back on the air, Radio Ink reported on Monday.
The 27-year-old country singer was banned from many radio stations across the country and several streaming platforms after TMZ posted video of him drunkenly shouting the N-word on February 2.

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Morgan Wallen Back on One Country Station, as Hometown Outlet Sides With Fans Over Industry 'Censorship'

Morgan Wallen Back on One Country Station, as Hometown Outlet Sides With Fans Over Industry 'Censorship'
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In what could be a sign of a break in country radio’s unified front, the currently forbidden superstar Morgan Wallen is back on the airwaves on at least one station that had put him on hold, WMYL-FM in Knoxville. The station may have more reason than most to return him to its playlist — Knoxville is Wallen’s hometown — but it does raise the question of how long the country radio industry will continue to speak with one voice in keeping music’s most successful recording artist of the moment off the air.

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Morgan Wallen's radio ban seems to crack as a hometown Knoxville station plays his music again

The 27-year-old rising country star has been banned from most radio stations across the county after using the N-word, but an unscientific online poll led a Knoxville station to put him back on the air.

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