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You'll find the learning objectives of this class (it's not really a class) below. If that sounds good to you, come on in.

Learning Objectives

1.        Country Music—and its supposedly working-class audience—is blacker, gayer, queerer, more feminine and smarter than its mainstream institutions or popular opinion would have you believe. Understanding country music requires critical approaches to overcome bullshit industry narratives.

2.        Country Music is defined as much as by its outlaws and fringe characters (Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, and their spiritual heirs) and counterpoints (Americana, Alternative Country) as its mainstream.

3.        Despite rhetoric about being "real"—“three chords and the truth”—or what some might call “authentic,” part of Country’s allure is actually romantic reimagining of deeply flawed spaces that allows its audience to find, in the space of a song, a “home” that does not really exist outside the listener’s mind (or, occasionally, a really good bar or concert venue).