Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Why Does Country Music Sound White?

This article talks about country music and just like the title states: Why does it sound white? The author started it out with a quote by Bush saying that country music is a story of america in music, its a story of patriotism and hard works, its the story of the love of freedom being just the same as the love of life itself. ut the author then states his main question after the quote, why do we always say country music sounds white. He explains people think this way because its believed to be a part of an imagined culture. When in reality this is false for two reasons, those reasons being that there is so such thing as a pure white culture and two we are a mix of all cultures. The author states we listen to country for three reasons: it gives us an idea of a perfect america, it appeals to the "low brow" and it gives us nostalgia which in the article is defined as simplicity or honest or traditional.  People do and dont listen to Country music for plenty of reasons. But to say its "sounds white" comes off as an almost uneducated reason, and i feel that through this whole article the author was almost making fun of these people. 

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