As we all know, Country music tends to be directed toward Conservative political goals. However, a lot of country music is anti-establishment. What would it take to have Country music being a counter-establishment or counter-conservative force?
Thoughts and ideas:
-This could happen at almost any time, though my personal ideas for specific songs date back to at least the 1970's.
- This could involve almost any field of country music be it traditional (Johnny Cash had a few songs that could qualify (one of which ("What is Truth?") would be the source of a good epigraph), while Loretta Lynn's "The Pill" should be included as well), "Red Dirt" (Willie Nelson- enough said.), Country-Pop (Dixie Chicks on Iraq is the most obvious one, but a number of artists could be included, wittingly (Garth Brooks and "We Shall Be Free") or not (Taylor Swift's "Mean" could be considered as part of the anti-bullying or "It Gets Better" movement, or both, while "Change" could be considered an unofficial theme song for Obama...) or others.
- Try and include as many RL examples of songs which qualify as you can. (You can even include songs which don't directly deal with political matters, but could be construed as such (like "Change", above.))
- How would this affect crossovers with other forms of music?
- How would this affect other musicians, both within and outside of Country?
- How would this affect Nashville, Austin or other music centers?
- How would this change politics?
Thoughts? I'd be glad to provide more on what little I know.