Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country

Document A

Thesis Statement

The roots of modern country music are sunk deep in American culture. Country music has brought many changes in the cultural fabric of this country. For many, the country music is the demand and choice of the new era. The cult of country music became a new reality to which American culture had to adjust. Therefore, this study will discuss how country music re-presents, broadcasts, and analyse this double bind of country faithfulness.

Outline

This study explains the history and importance of country music in modern society. In this study I will discuss that how country music has the fastest-growing audience in our modern culture.

Country music can be perceived as the melodies selected by the unsophisticated. Some early country music does sound ancient in compare to today's notes and blending techniques. So isolated is country music from any of the most latest heritage investigation that for need of a more up to designated day language numerous of its supports still converse about it in the customary periods of the genuine versus the inauthentic. In the end, strong conclusion support the arguments that how country music has changed our modern lives.

Document B

This study purely discusses the history and importance of country music in modern society. In this research, the roots of modern country music with reference to American culture are discussed. In this piece of work, the author has explained that country music reflected the new concerns and ambivalences of its audience, from songs like Moe Bandy's "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" which depicted the new culture and the old music of Barbara Mandrell a resurrection of the traditional musical forms of the past. Ching (1997) wrote in the article "Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country" about the post-war audience and reinvested country music with everyday meaning, as have singer/songwriters who have followed in his larger-than-life footsteps artists such as George Jones and Hank Williams. The creation of popular music (Rogers, 1989) is a complex process and one that deserves a good deal of analysis (Ellison, 1995). The old illusion that music is created in an artist's head, in a relative isolation from the world around him or her, is just that—an illusion. This sense of illusion is especially strong with respect to the creation of country music. (Ching, 1997)

The creation of music, especially popular music such as country, is a multi-stage social and organizational process involving many types of skills and persons and ultimately is judged by the economic criterion of financial results. However, a commercial art world in which the creation of music is not a lone artistic endeavour, but instead a joint product of all the people who cooperate to bring this work into existence, with the bottom line being the hope that this product will make money. Although, as (Ching, 1997) notes, the country music business employs many who are deeply committed to artistic integrity, particular musical styles and even particular artists, the business itself ...