But the image of what country music is persists. In 2020, audiences are so used to genres blending into one another, used to having no borders in music. In fact, the folks who don’t listen to country are more likely to claim knowledge of the subject matter: of country songs and what they’re about, of the kind of people who listen to country, of their values, their likes and dislikes. They don’t have to like it to think this. The look is, in part, because everyone is pretty sure they know country music. The unspoken onus in the moment is: Explain yourself - how do you like country? By which I mean: I’m never more aware of my blackness than when I’m rambling on about my love of the genre, receiving quizzical looks back. ![]() ![]() I’m never more black than when I talk about country music.
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