Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.
You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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