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Title: Dixie Chicks having the last word
Source: Grammy's
URL Source: http://n/a
Published: Feb 11, 2007
Author: me
Post Date: 2007-02-11 21:20:33 by scooter
Keywords: Dixie, Chicks
Views: 897
Comments: 34

Dixie Chicks just took home Grammy for "Song of the Year" for "Not Ready to Make Nice". As they concluded their thank-yous, CBS cuts to a commercial break showing a less than happy Reba....

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Lod  posted on  2007-02-11   21:31:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Burke, whenever I had mentioned on the forums that I was not into Country Music much (because I am from the north and there is no Country Music radio here) I would get a mean reaction - that it was proof I was anti-American because I did not identifiy with music of the heartland or something.

I never understood how Country Music - the music of the honky tonk anti establishment ('Take This Job and Shove It') became the music that is like part of the cult of what you termed the reich-wing.

Maybe bluedogtxn can fill in any info on how this music genre was co-opted by the so called reich-wing?

Destro  posted on  2007-02-11   21:55:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

That is a good question because Country music was fueled from it's very beginning by outlaws, misfits and assorted others who had little love for the Law.

I think it happened in the 90's about the time grunge came on scene. When that exploded you loved it or hated it. The hip-hop scene was in its infancy. A lot of people struggled to relate to either and so did a lot of stations. Good contemporary rock was hard to find and it was finding a hard time competing with grunge and hip-hop. I think artists who would have otherwise been contemporary rock found a home in Nashville. That and the old guard of country was aging out. I think Nashville said we need to "modernize" or die. The Clear Channel effect happened much later in the process. That's my 2 cents worth.

scooter  posted on  2007-02-11   22:23:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#4. To: scooter (#3) (Edited)

The last of old type of country is I think exemplified by the song 'Take This Job and Shove It' which came out at the end of the 70s. While this song is anti- establishment like we expect the Republicans to be it is also anti corporation and anti business. The Republican Country Music cult members of today are pro big corporations (defending Walmart). So a song by Johnny Paycheck called 'Take This Job and Shove It' would never even get air time in the modern Country scene.

Why the change in the music industry happened I can guess at but I really don't know for sure.

My theory is that Rock was the music of the protesting leftists and the Country crowd of the 60s and 70s was still anti Republican but the South was changing thanks to Nixon's Southern strategy which Reagan's revolution continued and took advantage of. So that the Southerner started to identify the Republican party and the music identified this trend. Music does not set trends as much as identify them.

For example I don't think gangsta rap created the gang problems but came along because there was already a gang problem.

Destro  posted on  2007-02-11 22:38:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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