– around 250 words total
– answer these two questions:
- Do you find the regional styles of country blues and/or early hillbilly music difficult to appreciate because of their “foreignness” to twenty-first-century urban culture? Why or why not?
- What do you think accounts for the continuing prejudice against country music that is held by many urban people today? What suggestions might you make to encourage more receptive listening to this music by those who categorically resist it?