Progressive Country Music Flashcards
(10 cards)
A reaction against mainstream country music of the 1960s and 1970s
Nashville sound
Mainstream country
The Nashville sound
Mainstream country music of the 1960s and 1970s was associated with?
Recording studios of Nashville, TN
_ and _ remain important elements
Southern dialect, steel guitar
Featured slick, professional what?
Production
Often conservative, and at odds with the 1960s-70s counterculture
Politics of mainstream country
Opposed to slick production values
Anti-Nashville
Influenced by what? (Hank Williams)
Early country
Influenced by the _, including the legacy of singer-songwriters of the 1960s like Bob Dylan
Counterculture
Estranged from mainstream country establishment
Socially and politically