{"id":4722,"date":"2015-04-27T12:42:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T17:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T17:46:02","slug":"growing-with-the-genre-jordannes-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/04\/27\/growing-with-the-genre-jordannes-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing with the Genre: Jordanne’s Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the spring semester progressed, I dove into a few different country experiences that gave me a bigger picture of what it means to be a fan of country music. I attended my first concert by seeing Eric Church at the Frank Erwin Center, visited the Willie Nelson, went two-stepping at Midnight Rodeo, and watched O Brother,Where Art Thou?<\/em> By doing more than just listening to country music, my appreciation for the genre has increased.<\/p>\n

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When I arrived at the Frank Erwin Center, one thought took over my mind. This Eric Church concert better be worth the cold trek I took to watch him. Long story short, I was impressed. Eric Church\u2019s Outsiders Tour<\/em> may have been my first concert experience, but it will not be my last. I learned that hearing the artist perform a song live portrays the emotion and story of a song a lot better than just listening online. Now whenever I hear an Eric Church song on Spotify, I think back to that cold March day and how I took a big step in appreciating an artist and his ability to connect with his audience as a whole and individually.<\/p>\n

As for visiting the Willie Nelson statue, I actually did not know anything about Willie Nelson other than what he looked like before I took Rhetoric of Country Music. I felt very out of the loop, because of this. He\u2019s such an enormous part of the development of country music. When I heard about his involvement in the Austin live music scene, I now understood why he is memorialized in Austin as opposed to Nashville. \u00a0Now that I know some of his history, I feel more educated about the genre and would definitely be more willing to listen to older songs from artists like Willie and Hank.<\/p>\n

Dancing at Midnight Rodeo, although not a new concept to me, was my second favorite activity next to my concert experience. I feel like music is not complete unless there\u2019s some form of dancing connected to it. Although I did not attend a night with live music, I still enjoyed dancing to the hits of yesterday and today. I feel like places like Midnight Rodeo would deeply benefit from either having a section of the night or one night a month specifically playing some of the oldies. Midnight Rodeo does stay true to its name in the fact that it plays country music past midnight. However I feel if they keep playing more and more hip-hop and pop hits to cater to the younger audience, it will lose its title as a \u201chonky-tonk\u201d. I feel that this was the activity that I felt the most immersed in the country music scene, out of the four I’ve chosen, despite the other music genres thrown in the mix.<\/p>\n

Finally I liked the movie, because it showed that country music still has its place in the cinema. Granted, O Brother Where Art Thou?<\/em> takes place in the 1930s South. \u00a0I feel that country music often gets overlooked when it comes to movie soundtracks, because people think that country music has to stay in the country. I\u2019m not saying, \u201cLet\u2019s put a George Strait song in this super hero flick as the theme song\u201d. However if a character is driving a car, it\u2019s not realistic that every character that drives a car listens just to hip-hop and pop. Why can\u2019t the character be listening to a nice George Jones or Dolly Parton song? Overall, I have to say I really appreciate that these experiences were part of the class. It really put the history of country music and its current songs into perspective. I definitely want to try more things on the list, in particular Chicken S*** Bingo sounds like it could be a blast. In a culture where hip-hop and pop rule the masses, country still rings in at number one to me because of the themes, lifestyle, and experiences that come with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the spring semester progressed, I dove into a fewdifferent country experiences that gave me a bigger picture of what it means tobe a fan of country music. I attended my first concert by seeing Eric Church atthe Frank Erwin Center, visited the Willie Nelson, went two-stepping atMidnight Rodeo, and watched O Brother,Where Art Thou? By doing more than just listening to country music, myappreciation for the genre has increased. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,3,62,63,13,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-dancing-2","category-live-music","category-movies-tv","category-music-videos","category-outlaw","category-storify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}