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>WS:] I do not find it entertaining, but I do
>not like country music or hip hop either.
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> Oh now you add country music to your pet peeves ;-)
I notice Woj brought up country music in the course of arguing about a divide between small town/rural fundamentalists and big city intellectuals. The term "country music" itself points up that the country/city divide is not as tidy as Wojtek seems to think. "Country music" is a term that's only been widely used since the 70s and it's a big city creation. The people who make it are just as comfortable in the city as they are in the country. Some of them live in Baltimore.
Listening to Bush yesterday I noticed that when he's on the ropes his "country" accent gets turned up to 11. I think in those moments he's trying to appeal to the so-called "real America" that we were discussing here a while back. To paraphrase the consensus we came up with then, fuck the idea that people as unlearned and uncurious as Bush are the "real America."