Country music is the Capitalist perversion of folk music through it's focus away from the people and onto nationalist and consumerist concepts.
Also Folk music as a proletarian music evolved into jazz, blues, punk, and later rap. no I don't write the rules.
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Folk music is to Proletarian Patriotism as Country music is to Capitalist Nationalism.
Is that my actual opinion?
No. I think this is what the patsoc nerds are trying to say in a very poorly worded manner.
Since you're still here, wanna listen to a song from Paul Robeson? The guy Woody Guthrie wrote a song for in the above song?
Here you go, it's The Soviet National Anthem sung in English by Paul Robeson
Country music did not start out as a capitalist perversion of anything. It started out as poor people playing folk music just a little bit differently than their peers playing bluegrass and folk. I mean try telling Steve Earl he’s a capitalist nationalist. Modern country music is a perversion of a genre whose roots were poor and hungry. It has now been beaten to an unrecognizable pulp into a disgusting Frankenstein of what it used to be.
I must repeat for the record that there are still lots of crusty weirds in greasy jeans playing steel guitars.
Yeah, I don't think anyone is calling Country Music in 1925 corporate
this is my favorite slow-burn struggle session keep it up :stalin-approval:
btw you're correct :sicko-biker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music
THIS IS HIGHLY REDUCTIONIST AND PROBLEMATIZED!
waves papers wildly
I'm like 90% sure that Country is just folk music with a steel guitar.
I spent my formative years following 9/11 with parents who mostly listened to mainstream country music.
I don't think I could've gotten a worse introduction to the genre.
WTYP has a good bonus ep on country music. most of it is Alice citing Utah Philips. they do sorta use folk and country interchangeably though
