CSPAN3 Lectures In History January 1, 2017
Forth between the terms. One of the things we see from peterson is that Country Music is music of modernity. It responds to it, grapples with it. I want to frame our discussion around couple of quotations. The first is from a anthropologist aaron fox. They write, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are quickly flamed 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 rac...