“First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor. But when a narrative is that clean,’ Giddens warns, ‘somebody wrote it.’”
Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History
Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Rolling Stone | June 5, 2020 | 2,935 words
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