Short Takes - A Black Fan of Country Music Tells All

1.      I think paragraph 3 and 4 introduce this essay.

2.      For most of Williams’ adult life, she was a closet country music fan who had to surreptitiously listen to country music and buy tapes in a music store. It’s all because she’s black who was not supposed to like country or classic music at that time.

3.      First, blacks’ contribution to American music was in jazz, blues and funk. Country music was dismissed as poor white folks’ blues and associated with regions of the nation that symbolized prejudice and racial bigotry. Even mainstream white America viewed country music as lower class and less desirable. Then, white America also demonstrated a cultural backwardness toward black music, be it gospel, ragtime or the blues. However, the 1980’s saw country became mainstream and very popular, too. Black and white artists sang duets and clearly admired on another’s music.

4.      Compare to some pop music, Lena Williams still likes country music the best. She would no longer make excuses for her musical tastes, and just listens to those country music that she loves.

5.      Williams proved a lot of examples to support her assertion that country music has become mainstream which is very detail and accurate.