AMS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Dixie Chicks, Swing Music, Indie Rock
11 Apr 2018
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New country has a sound that resembles rock, different messages, and a suburban listenership. Beginning with garth brooks, 1989, the genre explodes in record sales, with shania. Twain, come on over the biggest domestic release of 1990s. More than 2600 country stations reach 70 million weekly listeners, with 18% of the market in 1995 and billion in sales. 42% of americans in 1993 listen to country every week, twice the total of a decade before. Yet neither brooks nor twain stay on top of country music very ling; pop level success in this genre risks being seen as having betrayed your authenticity. The politics of country music exist on more than one level. Actual politics which will for example drive the dixie chicks out of country music. And a politics of industry and country as a community. Pre-world war ii: major labels for swing jazz, hollywood musicals, radio programs.
