Have you noticed that everyone on country radio is singing about being a country boy or country girl lately?\u00a0 Professor Longan confirms that you aren\u2019t imagining things, explains why artists started singing about their rural identity at the beginning of the 21st century, and explores what country-identity songs say about what it means to be country in the age of Wal-Mart, the Internet, and exurbanization.\u00a0 As it turns out, being country is about much more than drinking beer and driving a jacked-up truck.
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