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
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And as many of you know, it was met with some degree of controversy because there are those american citizens who said, but this was just a political correctness. And there were others who, in fact, they didnt even know who Harriet Tubman was. And various pictures of Harriet Tubman appeared on the internet and the people women who were in fact not Harriet Tubman. Harriet tubman has usually been a subject of childrens fiction. And very few people really know, at least american citizens we historians know who Harriet Tubman was. But that wasnt thats not the case with the american public. It was irony noted or the irony was noted in having tubman on the front of the 20 bill. And Andrew Jackson on the back. As many of you know, Andrew Jackson was not only a slave holder himself, but he was also oversaw indian removal and is renowned for being, really, an indian killer. So in addition to that, many people pointed to the fact that here you have Harriet Tubman who was commodified, who had val
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