As most people primarily write about ‘top 40’ artists and mainstream music and events, we are increasingly coming to believe that this is not the most interesting aspect of contemporary music. Genres such as country music receive insufficient coverage in the media, and as we all know the media in our society in extremely influential. The broader society isn’t ever exposed to country music, so how is it ever going to scrape into the top 40 if we never get the chance to easily listen to it.
Journalism is really opinionated and as journalists tend to write about the music they generally enjoy or what they think is more popular, lesser known genres, such as country music, often are overlooked and as a result stay more under publicised.
In order for country music to gain more coverage in the media, more people need to write about the genre and its events and artists, and to look past the stereotypes of country music. That’s why we have decided to base our blog solely on the country music genre, so we can bring more coverage to this genre and fill the gap left in the music media.
Spend some time reading our blogs, we feel that you will have a new look and appreciation on country music. We hope this will help broaden your horizons when it comes to music, past the closed ideal of the top 40.
By Jacki Tipton, Rachelle Fenning, Natalie Boyce, and Sophie Adams.
