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Complicated history with regard to race

User:Kerry_H1 added a very important sentence, which I will quote below.

The genre has had a complicated history with regard to race in the U.S.

1. "Country music reckons with racial stereotypes and its future". ABC News. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
2. "Morgan Wallen and country music's race issue is no surprise". CNN. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
3. "Country Music Continues To Confront Racism". NPR. Retrieved February 22, 2021.

I like where this is headed, but I think it deserves its own section. Especially broadening the topical issues of race in Tennessee's music industry, which deserves note. We should however highlight that in the Western music scenes this was not the case, as indigenous and Latin communities have created entire subgenres that thrive. I'm shocked that there isn't an article on Navajo country music, or that several of the New Mexico music artists continue to lack articles on this site. 71.228.115.97 (talk) 08:50, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

I think the work being done now on the section will be much more productive. Perhaps we can expand into a more broad "criticism" section? 71.228.115.97 (talk) 23:42, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Cliff Carlisle...citation and text in question

The section on the "first generation" of country artists ends with a sentence on Cliff Carlisle that identifies him as "hillbilly", whereas his WP article makes no mention of the term. I don't doubt that as a yodeler he may qualify, but it would help to have a source to support the claim. The citation that's provided links to the Vernon Dalhart article on pages 14-15 in Tony Russell's Country Music Originals, which doesn't mention Carlisle at all. Matters worse: the sentence says Carlisle (among others) recorded blues throughout the 1920s, which is true of others but not Carlisle since he didn't begin recording until 1930. BTW, Russell's book does have an article on Carlisle, on page 163. I have no idea what's in it because I don't have an internet archive account and can't access the book's full text. Allreet (talk) 00:38, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

The sentence I just mentioned - errors and all - is repeated in the History section, though it adds that Carlisle recorded into the 1930s. Allreet (talk) 00:56, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

The book mentions that he started recording in 1930 (the citation covered a number of pages, not just pages 14-15), so we should adjust that. Hzh (talk) 14:56, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 18:34, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

New Zealand omitted

How come New Zealand isn't mentioned at all in this article? I'm quite sure country music is popular there, given that it's an English speaking country. 93.143.225.229 (talk) 11:47, 22 July 2022 (UTC) some of these songs say fuck and ass and more