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While the genre is now overwhelming white, its roots are in Black music.
With his wonderful voice, fondness for strings and whistling and sad, beautiful stories, this American singer-songwriter lifts the spirits.
While some stereotype Alberta as a "conservative" province, the bucking and swift horses that typify the Calgary Stampede speak to a more complex spirit of risk seen in local musicians.
Why does Dolly Parton have such broad appeal, across lines of race, nationality, gender identity and sexual orientation?
Africa's broadcasters have a large role to play to ensure that country and western grows to its full potential on the continent.
The singer was not 'middle of the road'. He was a bridge across it.
For 50 years, country music executives in Nashville have tried to dilute the genre's rich, diverse history.
The band's first US hit wasn't 'Satisfaction.' Released in March 1965, 'The Last Time' possessed stylistic flairs that would predict the band's future success.
Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection depicts the fully-formed artist – a blues musician, yes, but also a performer of string-band, country and pop songs.
This past June, radio conglomerate Clear Channel (now known as iHeartRadio) announced it was converting Boston’s 101.7 FM to a country station. The story they told the Boston Globe was a familiar one…
It may have raised eyebrows for some, but it is entirely appropriate for Taylor Swift to be writing an article for the Wall Street Journal. Over the past few years she has appeared regularly in the Forbes…
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Adjunct Lecturer of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology
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Course Director MA (Music Industries), University of Liverpool
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Director, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in Anthropology, Catholic University of Malawi
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