.KenBurns' upcoming series will explore multiple storylines in country music's rise from rural niche format to mainstream plank
documentary show both races playing the same instruments in poor, back-porch settings, though society's cruel divide would be reflected in country for decades. Carson was known to perform for KKK gatherings and Communists in addition to farm families and politicians. Blackface comedy was common, even at the Grand Ole Opry, where black harmonica playerwas popular during the show's first decade.
But separatism remains a cultural flashpoint, fueled in part by the divide between urban and rural living. While growing up in a split family,was exposed to hip-hop in city neighborhoods and to country when he resided on a farm. Although others might have exacerbated the differences, he found a way to fuse them.Wynton Marsalis. "America, we're caught in between those two things. So our music has ended up being segregated.
In the era of mixed-genre streaming playlists and push buttons that allow radio listeners to jump formats in a snap, the divisions seem to be dissolving, white supremacists be damned.
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