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Music
Santoro, Gene | April 8, 1991 issue

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This article discusses the American country music. The country music is based on commercially generated nostalgia. The Grand Ole Opry, the industry's ideological centerpiece, has traded in it since 1925. Although the past that country music evokes is largely a fabrication, the music is also a mirror that reflects American history as it refracts the present through its guilty dream. A hundred years and more ago, back before country music was manufactured in Los Angeles and Nashville, there were the hymns and ballads and schottisches and fiddle tunes and so on. Country Music Foundation is Nashville's academic arm. It publishes learned monographs in "The Journal of Country Music."

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COUNTRY music; FOLK music -- United States; POPULAR music; HYMNS; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; UNITED States
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