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This is maybe a side issue, but it's at the core of my own work. There is something about the word "embraced" in Diane Pecknold's description of the post-War country audience that implies a choice between competing options. What were those options? If there weren't any or if the only option was a grudging acceptance of an unwelcome system, does it make sense to talk in terms of embracing "postwar consumerism and capitalism"? In a message dated 3/23/2006, Diane Pecknold wrote: >But the social narrative he offered in his work was not >the one I believe the bulk of the country audience >*embraced*: an acceptance of postwar consumerism and >capitalism and an effort to achieve success within that >system (though I will grant that most felt entitled to >or were unaware of the government assistance they >received in that quest). >Commercial country in the 1940s and 1950s, and arguably >even earlier, included an *embrace* of commercialism, >consumerism, and middle-class ambitions and respectability >in both its visual and lyrical aesthetics. >One has only to look at a couple of Nudie suits to know >that part of country's appeal was its *embrace* (ambivalent >though it sometimes was) of materialism as a road to >respectability and even personal fulfillment. [My emphasis.] Kathy Skaggs P. O. Box 4132 Campbellsville, KY 42719-4132 (270) 469-4000 (615) 268-5394 (cell) _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kathleen/_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kathleen/)
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