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You need to keep up. "Honky White Boy" refers to downtrodden Irish-Italian cattle farmers and country is the music of their people.  |
I’ll see what I can do about keeping up.
Oh no!! Downtrodden!!!
Heaven forbid.
That sounds the same as being owned, bought & sold and then segregated.
Oh & it’s their music is it? Nice work doubling down on your ignorance.
Do better.
You might also want to look a little deeper into the roots of country music.
https://time.com/5673476/ken-burns-c...black-artists/
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The black influence on country music starts with the banjo, which often conjures the hazy image of a white pastoral South. But the instrument is a descendant of West African lutes, made from gourds, that were brought to America by slaves and which became a central part of slave music and culture in the South. Soon, the instrument was standardized, appropriated and spread to white audiences through minstrel and blackface shows — which deeply informed the rise of hillbilly music, a term that would later be rebranded as “country music.”
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Many of the songs that early hillbilly artists played were likewise inherited and adapted from black sources — like slave spirituals, field songs, religious hymnals or the works of professional black songwriters. In Country Music, Burns traces how “When the World is On Fire,” a hymn arranged by a black minister, was turned into the Carter Family’s 1928 hit “Little Darling, Pal of Mine”
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