Country Music Promotes American Values
August 1, 2011
Newsmax - Country music, a genre whose roots grew from traditional American values, is popularizing patriotism more than ever as its artists gain momentum, according to a story in the August issue of Townhall Magazine.
Country music, a genre whose roots grew from traditional American values, is popularizing patriotism more than ever as its artists gain momentum, according to a story in the August issue of Townhall Magazine.
Rob Weiner, a pop-culture historian at Texas Tech University who analyzes the role
of music in American life, said country artists always have been perceived as more
honest and believable than rock ’n’ rollers.
“Even today, there is the perception that country artists come straight from America's heartland,” Weiner said.
“The chest-thumping popularity of patriotic songs such as Lee Greenwood's “God Bless the U.S.A.” galvanized the long but somewhat loose relationship between much of the country-music business and conservatives in culture and even politics, especially post-Sept. 11,” according to Townhall Magazine. “There’s a reason that . . . talker Sean Hannity says country is his favorite kind of music.”
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