Country music essay

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This genre of music has many fans around the world. The interviewee is one of the fan of country music. From childhood he has had his taste for music limited to country music. There is evidences that he is indeed a fan of country music because he has gone a notch higher to buy guitar and has also gone to music training lessons just for leisure. Much about his love for country music will be heard from him and so let us switch to him so that he elaborate on this as he answers some questions. I have come to know many different country music artist and songs from ancient years up to date such as Vern Gosdin, Vince Gill, Keith Whitney, Dixie chicks, Tim McGraw the list is endless but these are some of my favorite artists.

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I have even managed to go to live performance of some these artist where I have experienced their adorable vocals carrying with it deep message”. He explained. When I asked on how his musical taste have changed over time he explained that, “my taste for music have changed the taste I have for country music was great from the start and it have continued to intensify over time. From the first time of hearing country music my taste have intensified year in year out. At first I no idea on who had sang the song but after listening to the song melodies, cool words with deep message. After this I personally researched on who sang it, in the process of doing this I found out other country music artists and listened to their songs.

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From that instant I developed a taste for country music and up to date I am a great fan of country music. In fact I influenced some of my friend to develop taste for country music and they are really enjoy the music in a great way. Even some of them have joined different groups who hold live events, they participate in the groups as guitarist, pianist and some compose the music”. "The song reminds me of the good olden days. oh! It was beautiful" His response on the artists who reminded him of the childhood or a special occasion, easily led to subsequent question which was the song that he least liked. For him it was not easy to streamline to a single song that he least liked and one could notice his abrupt variation of moods after this question was posed to him (Peterson and Richard, 14).

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Why? He said that he less liked the song can’t be with you tonight by Judy Boucher. When I enquired to get the real reason why he did not like the song much, he declined to answer and maybe anyone could guess the reason considering his sudden change of jovial moods that he had at the start of the interview. To him, 10,000 reasons by Matt Redman a renowned gospel song was a song that he admitted it was one of its kind and it usually took him to another level of life quoting the chorus verse "Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul" which is the verse that he first mastered in the song. It came clear that it was the mostly played song in almost all his musical devices starting with his phone to the radios, memory cards and the radio mostly on early mornings and weekends.

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So, one could tell how much he valued the song looking at the hours and days it was played. He said that however much he listened to other sorts of secular music, he could not afford to go a day without at least a gospel song (Fox and Aaron, 17). When I sought to ask about his favorite artist who he would have liked to see on stage performing, it was another struggling question for him to answer.  Music genres and corporate cultures. Routledge, 2013:11-25 Hennion, Antoine. "Music lovers: Taste as performance. " Theory, Culture & Society 18. Katz, Elihu, Paul F. What is your least favorite song? 8. If you could create a super group--one guitarist, one singer, one drummer, one bassist--who would be in it? 9.

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