[atlantaprog] Re: Country music

Wheat Williams wrote:

The essential theme of country music is this: Songs are written to appeal to a large number of URBAN, city-fied caucasian listeners living complex modern lives with lots of pressures. Country songs conjure


While this may be true, go spend the weekend in a southern, rural podunk town. Almost all of them listen to country (both modern and slightly older). Their lives are not complex, nor do they have a lot of pressure, but they LOVE their country music! I think that the people that make country music are well aware of that element. I agree that newer groups especially cater to urban cowboys (for lack of a better term), but not all.

images of an idyllic, stylized  faux-recollection of simpler times when
Thus it is a form of escapism.



Well, look at hair bands. Same thing! Images of an idyllic, sylized life (as a rock star, sleep with lots of Tawney Kittaen-like women, be a guitar or vocal "god", etc.). Definitely a form of escapism. :-)

Alex F/Brain21


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