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Article: The Resurgence of Country Music
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THE RESURGENCE OF COUNTRY MUSIC
Counterculture
Country music, with its inherent appeal for the rural heartland, had always existed apart from more sophisticated (and more fickle) musical trends of urban America. Part of this difference was purely regional, but it was also the result of Nashville's established traditions. Country records were generally low-budget efforts, promoted to a small number of radio stations. Live venues (the Grand Ole Opry, country fairs and festivals, small taverns) existed completely apart from the stadium-scale theatrics of rock 'n' roll. Thus the counter-culture of the late 1960s
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