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Why has Country Music remained so white? What cultural and industry forces kept the genre that so willingly borrowed from blues, gospel, norteño, and mariachi so completely dominated by white artists and tied to white identity?

by /u/F_Scott_Shitzgerald in /r/AskHistorians

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