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Sara Fran Again's avatar

True: re outlaws. I’d say that’s it’s not just about being white, but about whiteness and white supremacy as an ideology. You can’t just be white, you have to perform whiteness. (This is despite the fact that country came from folk rebellion.)

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hillzalive's avatar

This is *exactly* FM country in a nutshell.

We all know AP Carter was playing with black folks - he was poor and so was southern blackness (which was also being criminalized/extralegally persecuted to put it mildly). So we don’t SEE the way they played together and developed Americana, folk, and country together. And because it wasn’t preserved with a lot of importance/dignity, it’s hard to visualize today.

It’s really crazy how insidiously country music has mainstreamed and normalized white supremacy once again on the backs of Black musicians.

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Johnathon Haney's avatar

Performing whiteness was something the OG outlaw country boys refused to do to a man.

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Sara Fran Again's avatar

No integrity in it

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Sara Fran Again's avatar

Yeah exactly what I mean!

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