country music

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• SOURCE: Oxford American
  1/24/2023
  

  Who Gets to Sing About Revenge in Pop Music?

  by Jewel Wicker

  Do the racial politics of musical genre explain why songs about revenge are celebrated in country music and turned into evidence for the prosecution against hip hop artists (even when the songs in question are fiction)?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/4/2022
  

  Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star Who Voiced Rural Resilience, Dies at 90

  The singer expressed the endurance of hardship but also performed subversive and humorous takes on the changing mores reaching rural America in the 1960s and 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/8/2021
  

  How the Black Country Star Charley Pride Became an Unlikely Hero in Northern Ireland's Troubles

  by Walker Mimms

  Pride's "Crystal Chandeliers" didn't chart when he released in in the US in 1967; a decade later it was a unity anthem for Northern Ireland residents hoping for peace. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/28/2021
  

  Bob Moore, Key Pillar of the "Nashville Sound", dies at 88`

  "Over 40 years Mr. Moore elevated the bass in country music from a subordinate timekeeper to an instrument capable of considerable tonal and emotional reach."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/21/2021
  

  Tom T. Hall, Writer of Numerous Nashville Hits, Dies at 85

  "In all my writing, I've never made judgments," he said in 1986. "I think that's my secret. I'm a witness. I just watch everything and don't decide if it's good or bad."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/28/2021
  

  Country Music's Next Big Question: Where are Latino Artists?

  by Amanda Marie Martinez

  “My dream is for the cowboys and the vaqueros — who were the first cowboys — to all be in one place, to bring those two worlds together.”

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/17/2021
  

  The Crossroads Facing Country Music after Morgan Wallen’s Use of a Racist Slur

  by Amanda Marie Martinez

  Country music has always been more racially diverse than the commercial recording and radio industries in Nashville have recognized. It's time for the industry to reflect the music's history. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/28/2021
  

  Sun Records, Storied Early Rock Label, Sells Its High-Wattage Catalog

  "In the 1950s, Sun Records in Memphis became one of the most dynamic forces in American music, releasing the first recordings by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and others, helping define rockabilly and rock ’n’ roll."

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• SOURCE: Deadline
  12/12/2020
  

  Charley Pride Dies: Pioneering Black Country Music Star Was 86

  Charlie Pride was the first Black performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and is one of three Black members of the Grand Ole Opry. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/29/2020
  

  The Long, Lonesome Roads of Jerry Jeff Walker

  Music writer Amanda Petrusich remembers the iconoclastic songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, who died this week at 78. 

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Problem with Ken Burns' Country Music

  by Peter LaChapelle

  What would a Country Music that deals with country music’s complicated and often problematic political history look like?