CSPAN3 Lectures In History Colonial America Race And The Origins Of Country... July 12, 2024
Anthropologist aaron fox, and fox writes Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are frequently framed in specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans specifically, country is bad music because its precisely understood as a claim to witness, not as a condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a marked foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, progressive politics or elite musical culture. So i want us to think about that. Country music as articulating, conveying this type of very marked...