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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?