{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "what's your take on Old Town Road?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186038223918/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>what's your take on Old Town Road?</p></div>\n<p>It\u2019s a novelty song, but so much of country is</p><p>Of course the genre name was traditionally \u201cCountry and Western\u201d, \u201cCountry\u201d largely meaning \u201cSouthern\u201d, and I think a lot of the upbeat country since the \u201890s was really a reflection of the rise of the New South and the development of a native (white) middle class, NASCAR and evangelicalism and all that</p><p>But historically the <i>western</i> frontier was really not even postracial but pre-racial, torn by a lot of more immediately relevant cross-cutting commitments and united on a major man v. nature axis, and America looking back to that historical memory to orient itself today is probably a good thing</p>"}