Why is Country Music SO Alienating

[RagingInMiami]

If you're a liberal and you admit to liking country music, you're secretly or openly viewed as a freeper.

And if you're a liberal living in a city listening to country, you're viewed by both liberals and freepers as a yodeling yokel.

What's up with that.

[Chovexani]

1. Or...

...you could just listen to what you want and not pay attention to what people think about you.

Works for me.

[enigmatic]

3. Bingo

I really don't give a shit what anybody here or anywhere else thinks of my viewing, reading, or listening habits; it's a complete waste of time.

[Left Is Write]

2. My dad likes country music, bluegrass, baseball, and NASCAR.

He's also a Democrat who spent 41 years in a white-collar job. He's a stereotype buster, my dad is!

[TimeChaser]

24. Some of the most liberal people I know

love NASCAR.

[mvd]

4. It's the passion and folk aspects that appeal to me

I enjoy the storytelling. Yes, it gets jingoistic and sometimes there's an overflow of rural-is-best stuff, but as a liberal, nothing else bothers me. I always say: just like what you like and don't worry.

I like country and stuff that's labeled teen pop, but that's not all I listen to.

[Heidi]

5. What do you have against yodeling yokels?

[enigmatic]

6. Right on!!!!

But he's no Slim Whitman:

[RagingInMiami]

7. Leave it to Heidi to defend yodelers

[Heidi]

9. I almost always defend the underdog, RagingInMiami . . .

and I can hardly think of a group more maligned than country yodelers. :rofl:

[Bridget Burke]

18. Don't forget Patsy Montana....

She yodeled her way to a big hit with "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart."

I like country from Old-Timey through the "Alt" stuff--including Bluegrass, Western Swing & Hardcore Honky Tonk. Even the much-derided Nashville Sound brought us Miss Patsy Cline.

Most current Nashville product sucks.

[Heidi]

20. I'm with you, Bridget Burke.

I'm not much into the pre-packaged stuff. And I lovelovelove that vintage photo of Patsy Montana!

:hi:

[hfojvt]

8. listening to country music ain't nothin

Just try wearing a cowboy hat in a small midwestern town of 5000.

[Kire]

10. what used to be country is now being called alt.country

the stuff they've got on the big radio now appropriated the name, but it's really not country. It's called propaganda.

[mvd]

11. We couldn't be more different here

I don't see how Alan Jackson and Patty Loveless aren't country.

And I even enjoy many of the more pop sounds.

[Kire]

25. it's like Psychoanalysis

the Freudienne school moved away from classical Psychoanalysis, so Lacan, like the alt.country bands, decided on a "return to freud (country)", he broke with the name Freud, but stayed true to the original intent, which is to work something out, to gain something, to become a more educated person after going through psychoanalysis

the pop sound are enjoyable, but they don't explain the difference between enjoyment and jouissance

[enigmatic]

12. yep

It's my genre of choice for the last 15 or so years; I went from playing hardcore punk in my earliest bands to Silos/Uncle Tupelo-inspired alt-country by the time my last band broke up in the early 90's.

[mvd]

13. BTW

I also like alt-country. But I think it's silly to limit a genre to a certain sound.

[enigmatic]

14. Well

It's come to the point where alt-country contains bands like Richmond Fontaine (who are as loud as anybody when they want to be) and Old Crow Medicine Show (who are more old timey bluegrass than anything), so it's a pretty big tent.

I guess "Roots" music would be a more complete term to use, but even that is debatable...

[mvd]

15. I still have a larger definition

Have a good night! :hi:

[enigmatic]

16. You too, bro

:)

[6000eliot]

17. I love country music

But not the jingoistic RW kind. What about Gram Parsons? The Byrds? The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band? Emmylou Harris? Even The Beatles and the Stones did country songs.

[wildhorses]

19. poco, new riders of purple sage, goose creek symphony

even bob dylan did nashville skyline and a duet with johnny cash...i could go on...

[jandrok]

21. Try a few of THESE artists and get back to me.....

Nickel Creek
Patty Griffin
Willie
The Greencards
Rodney Crowell
Blue Merle
The Duhks
Son Volt
Charlie Robison
Bruce Robison
Kelly Willis

The boundaries of what has been traditionally recognized as "country" music are expanding. Americana has replaced modern country as the genre of choice for artists who no longer fit in with Nashvillie's marketing mix. NO Depression magazine is a good place to get familiar with some of these artists.

Good stuff.

[kwassa]

22. Save a horse, ride a cowboy

[henslee]

23. Fuck em. I love country. But country radio stations or mullets.. that's

another story.