Feb 11

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What the divisive state of country music can teach us in the case against purism

Country music is a world of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

Excuse me… what? You ask. Clayton, I did not come here to hear you give me more musings on country music. Or… put it in a Hegelian dialectic.

Hear me out, people.

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What the divisive state of country music can teach us in the case against purism

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