Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz in her book red dirt which is a memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the
Around couple of quotations. The first is from an anthropologist. Aaron fox. And fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential badness are quickly framed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz in her book red dirt which is a memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the
[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation
Forth between the terms. One of the things we see from peterson is that Country Music is music of modernity. It responds to it, grapples with it. I want to frame our discussion around couple of quotations. The first is from a anthropologist aaron fox. They write, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are quickly flamed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked, neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race, but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. The second quote is from roxanne dunbarortiz, a writer and historian, in the book red dirt, a memoir of growing up in
Forth between the terms. One of the things we see from peterson is that Country Music is music of modernity. It responds to it, grapples with it. I want to frame our discussion around couple of quotations. The first is from a anthropologist aaron fox. They write, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are quickly flamed in specifically racial terms. For cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked, neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race, but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. The second quote is from roxanne dunbarortiz, a writer and historian, in the book red dirt, a memoir of growing up in