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
Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Charley pride is a true Living Legend has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in the history of Country Music, is a threetime grammy winner and sold tens of millions of records worldwide and today he celebrates 50 years as a recording artist and im honored to finally have him on this program to discuss his trailblazing career. But before we start that conversation, a look back at Charley Pride performing just between you and me his first success on the country charts. Just between you and me im not so sure about it so just between you and me youre too much to forget youre too much to forget [ cheers and applause ] howd that sound to you all these years later . Well, it sound like what im still doing. Ha, ha. To what do you attribute the fact that you are still doing this 50 years later . Im just going to say it like this, i love what i do, and you remember the song called that old black magic by
Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Charley pride is a true Living Legend has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in the history of Country Music, is a threetime grammy winner and sold tens of millions of records worldwide and today he celebrates 50 years as a recording artist and im honored to finally have him on this program to discuss his trailblazing career. But before we start that conversation, a look back at Charley Pride performing just between you and me his first success on the country charts. Just between you and me im not so sure about it so just between you and me youre too much to forget youre too much to forget [ cheers and applause ] howd that sound to you all these years later . Well, it sound like what im still doing. Ha, ha. To what do you attribute the fact that you are still doing this 50 years later . Im just going to say it like this, i love what i do, and you remember the song called that old black magic by
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