Question about country music...

Cafe Society
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So, the OP seems to have branched off into two streams of discourse.

That is, the popularity of American Country Music around the world; linked to the ongoing investigation of Murder on Music Row. In fact, I’ve expounded on the topic in several threads of the past. (Generally, replying to OP’s asking “Why does country music suck so much?” Answer: “You haven’t heard the good stuff.”)

If the OP really meänt “do other countries have their own ‘country’ music?” the answer is Yes. We don’t have to go far to find the ranchera music of Mexico. (In Houston, you don’t have to go anywhere; just turn on the radio.) You don’t need to be a graduate linguist to figure out that’s the music of the rancho.

Wikipedia has a pretty good summary. Including this book title, in which the obvious is belabored in a very Germanic fashion: Música ranchera. Das mexikanische Äquivalent zur Country and Western Music aus historischer, musikalischer und kommerzieller Sicht.

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Ok, sorry, I can’t let this go. Real country music is dead no doubt and it was killed by exactly the kind of crap in the above link. Country music now is a parody of what non-country people think it should be. Every song is joke (If i said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? Or as in the link talking about fingerprints in the ‘killed country music’ regard) or some schmaltzy God inspired horseshit or, worse, singing about a lifestyle not lived by the singer (singing about their old truck while getting chauffeured around to concerts or singing about mom and pop stores while shopping on Rodeo Blvd).

I’ll not go on about where it should be going but it used to be honest drinking and drugging and hell-raising music (think Hank senior). I think The Grand Old Opry killed it for mass consuption. Thank god for neotraditional country music.

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Country music in Latin: Semper excrementum.