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Country Comes to Town - The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville (Paperback)
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Country Comes to Town - The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville (Paperback)
Series: American Popular Music
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Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open
land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a
repository of nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres
traditional values, Jeremy Hill argues that country music has found
such expansive success because its songs and its people have
forcefully addressed social and cultural issues as well as
geographic change. Hill demonstrates how the genre and its fans
developed a flexible idea of ""country,"" beyond their rural roots,
and how this flexibility allowed fans and music to ""come to
town,"" to move into and within urban spaces, while retaining a
country ""character."" To understand how the genre has become the
far-reaching commercial phenomenon that it is today, Hill explores
how various players within the country music fold have grappled
with the notion of place. He shows both how the industry has
transformed the city of Nashville and how country music -- through
song lyrics, imagery associated with the music, and branding -- has
reshaped ideas about the American landscape and character. As the
genre underwent significant change in the last decades of the
twentieth century, those who sought to explain its new styles and
new locations relied on a traditional theme: ""You can take the boy
out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the
boy."" Hill demonstrates how this idea -- that you can still be
""country"" while no longer living in a rural place -- has been
used to expand country's commercial appeal and establish a
permanent home in the urban space of Nashville.
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