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
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
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
In Northern Maryland too, going to watch out for some icy spots out west as well if you happen to be traveling between hagerstown and cumberland, please be careful. The good news is this stuff is going to wind down later this evening. I think were going to see sun and 40s on sunday. Turning now to the trump transition. Theres a fight underway between civil rights leader and congressman john lewis and president elect donald trump. The feud comes two days before Martin Luther king, jr. Day and less than a week before mr. Trumps inauguration. Wendy gillette has the latest. Reporter congressman john lewis says he will not attend the inauguration of president elect donald trump this friday along with 10 other democrats. Its the first time lewis has skipped the swearing in of a president in his 16 terms in congress. I dont see the president elect as a legitimate president. Reporter the congressman made the comments as part of an interview that will air the press sunday. Saturday he tweeted,