<p>So I went to see stage coach 2007 this weekend. (2 days of country music and concerts.) All these girls had cowboy hats, jeans and were talking about which male vocalists were hot. They all tried out farm accents and tried to act boisterous. It was interesting.</p>
<p>Anyways at one point in the concert a slide was played on the screen of a bumper-sticker with a cartoon character urinating on the name “Bin Laden.” Personally, I thought it was in pretty crude taste. After that slides were shown of firemen, factory workers and US army men.</p>
<p>There’s definitely a culture here though, don’t you think?</p>
<p>Yes, a culture of racist white trash conservative Republican hicks is what it is. Sorry, that’s just what I picture when I think of country music ‘culture’… and to think the music was bad enough! Eugh.</p>
<p>my last run in with country music culture was a couple weekends ago…me and a large group of friends were looking for a party, and found a house playing loud music with the door open, so we suspected there was an ongoing party. we couldn’t tell what KIND of music it was from outside, but once we went inside we found it was country music, hosted by a couple beer-wielding white guys (one in a cowboy hat)…and we also found out that there hadn’t been a party but they were trying to start one. and once a fair amount of people had come in, they immediately (and exclusively, i should add) started serving all the girls alcohol, their purposes clear…</p>
<p>then one of my friends got hungry, so she pulled out some bread from their cabinets. at this, one of the guys living there got livid and pushed her to the ground. mind you, my friend is a 5’1" 100 lbs girl and the guy is a buff ~6" 200 lbs. and as we were walking out (rather, forced out), the guy pushed one of my other friends who had nothing to do with the bread-taking, then proceeded to throw his nearly full beer at us. so have i had a pleasurable experience with the culture? no, i can’t say i have…</p>
<p>I’m from Dallas, and had never even listened to country before I started college at A&M. And while I don’t think the music is amazing or anything I’d ever put on my iPod, going to a western dance hall can be a really good time.</p>
<p>Of all the crappy music out there these days, classic up tempo country songs that are made to dance to with hot girls in short denim skirts is pretty far down the ladder.</p>
<p>^ i won’t doubt it. just as much as i’m not a huge fan of mainstream hip-hop, i’ll go to a party/dance and dance to it and have a lot of fun…honestly, whatever floats your boat at that moment in time is cool. but again, it’s not so much the music that bothers as it is some of the implied cultural traits that accompany it…and add to that, as said, i personally haven’t had a great experience with it.</p>
<p>hey not all country music is redneck, white trash republican b.s. look at the classics man! Woody Guthrie was a radical marxist, pete seeger is still living the revolution.
Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline album can get any girl wet.<br>
don’t forget JOHNNY CASH-the man in black is some pretty revolutionary $.h.i.t.
and after Johnny Cash died there lives the coolest American around: Willie Nelson, the only citizen known to have smoked a joint in the white house (Jimmy Carter’s inaguration).</p>
<p>I don’t know much about modern country music, but i’m sure some smart country folk singers are still around, you just gotta look.</p>
<p>I love wearing cowboy hat and boots and doing country dances! I don’t like country music but the dance halls are fun!</p>
<p>But Vyse, you are at A&M? That place is TOTAL HICKSVILLE! I hear a lot of racism against black people, too, and just the snotty athmosphere. Big reason why I am not going there. (bad things are product of students, not falculty)</p>
yeah, but you don’t associate yourself with the culture, which is the point. you can listen to music and still not associate yourself with the dominant culture…i listen to some country like Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, etc. and likewise there’s nothing “white trash” about me (then again, i’m Filipino :p). i also listen to some Mexican folk, all sorts of hip-hop (mainstream, underground, punk/metal associated), and classical…but i probably don’t look like i do haha.</p>
<p>It had nothing to do with if I associate myself with it or not.</p>
<p>All I have to say is that I live in Tennessee, listen to Country music, and the assumptions that I’m a back woods, white trash hick will be the first thing in people’s minds. It’s not right that they assume those things, but they do.</p>
<p>wow…a lot of hostility towards “country music culture”…I’m very redneck, i love country. I wear a cowboy hat, drive a truck, party in fields, the whole nine yards. That doesn’t mean i’m just another intolerant white hick. One of my best friends is a big black guy with an afro, and I listen to just as much immortal technique and atmosphere. I guess the point here is that putting a label on any so called “country music culture” is unfair, because every member of that culture is different. Real “country” people like where I grew up are respectful and friendly. You can’t judge an entire group by observing some wannabee rednecks who wear cowboy hats and listen to pop country. open your eyes…</p>
<p>I love country music. So many people are skeptical of what is different from them and automatically put themselves higher than whatever it is that they don’t understand. This, in turn, causes magnified stigmas, hate, and animosity where there should be respect.</p>