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.)
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.)
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.
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.)
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.
Performing whiteness was something the OG outlaw country boys refused to do to a man.
No integrity in it
Yeah exactly what I mean!