The purpose of our blog page is to cover the ‘missing’ genre of country music from the media. Before starting this blog I personally had never taken too much notice as to how often country music is mentioned in the news. I went to bigpond.com and searched the news database for country music articles. 122 articles came up. Some were totally random and had nothing to do with country music but the majority of them were about Keith Urban and his tour or alcohol troubles and others were about memorials for Slim Dusty and the release of his family’s CD. A few of the articles were about pregnant Nichole Kidman!!
There were a couple of articles that caught my attentioned and promoted the real value of country music and exposing what the genre should really be about… the country. Two seperate articles discussed country music concerts raising money for the on going droughts on the land and helping the locals take their minds off the suffering the drought is causing. Country Music needs to be reported on more often in the media, not just the mainstream country music like Keith Urban but the happiness and help country music can bring to people. Country Music was originally written about the country for the country and we need to think past the familiar and remember this.
Rachelle Fenning
It shows how although there is a gap in country music coverage and media mainstream use of country music, media still loves its gossip regardles of the genre!
I think this just proves how amazingly under publicised the country genre is. Only 122 results…thats pathetic! After reading that i went on and searched for pop/rock music and i got 1,610,000 articles. Little different isn’t it!
Also, even though Keith Urban is semi-pop hence us actually knowing who he is, I wonder how many people knew he was in Australia before he began dating Nichole? He’s Australian and it takes him actually dating a famous Australian for us to even know who he is. He is one of our biggest exports and we only know him via his wife. Thats wrong!