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Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville

Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville

On March 20th, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, a block from the honky-tonks of Lower Broadway, Hayley Williams, the lead singer of the pop-punk band Paramore, strummed a country-music rhythm on her guitar. A drag queen in a ketchup-red wig and gold lamé boots bounded onstage. The two began singing in harmony, rehearsing a twangy, raucous cover of Deana Carter’s playful 1995 feminist anthem “Did I Shave My Legs for This?”—a twist on a Nashville classic, remade for the moment. The singer-songwriter Allison Russell watched them, smiling. In just three weeks, she and a group of like-minded...

July 17, 2023
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