The values tied to country music — patriotism, rugged individualism, the American Dream — feel, if not tainted by their ties to Trump-era politics, then at the very least complicated by the culture wars
Each morning from the age of eight to 12, I took a schoolbus from outside my house to my primary school in the centre of town. The bus driver played a regional station and that station played country music. For an hour each day I stared out the window while’s Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ played like a soundtrack to the fields and squat bungalows rolling past. It was the mid-1990s.
Marty Morrissey: I’m an only child of an only child dad, and an only child mum. I’ve no aunts, uncles or first cousinstakes office and the US develops a hard stance on immigration and rolls back DEI policies, complicating the genre’s themes of nationalism and the frontier. Here Cowboy Carter serves to highlight black artists already at work in country music. Shaboozey – , a black genre-bending country-music artist from Virginia – collaborated on several tracks from the album.
“Genres are a funny little concept aren’t they? ... In theory, they have a simple definition that’s easy to understand. But in practice, well, some may feel confined.” This is Linda Martell, the first successful black female artist in country music, who can be heard on the track Spaghettii.
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