Thursday, February 10, 2011
Ethnicity in Hard Core and Soft Shell Country
We were talking about the white ethnic movement in class, and it seems that the hard core country artists are more ethnic than the soft core country artists because of their authenticity. The Peterson article states that even though the hard core country artists tended to make less money then the soft core artists, but they "have received the most attention from contemporary commentators" (150). The hard core country artists seem to parallel the first generation immigrants of the early 1900s because they want to keep their traditions alive and tend to not make as much money. The soft core country artists seem like the second and third generations of immigrant families. They would rather make more money and have a better life for themselves by keeping in touch with their heritage, but altering their traditions to better suit the world they live in and make themselves more popular.
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This also reminds me of something we discussed last quarter. :) When we talked about the three aspects of the folk process, I think Zack was the one who mentioned that a modern example of the folk process today is rap - the idea that rappers' songs are more legit if they had actually come from the hood. For example, Drake, a popular rap artist today, sometimes gets a hard time because he was an actor on the tv show Degrassi before his career in music. I think he is definitely a good example of what a soft core rap artist would be in relation to that of a soft core country artist.
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