Reply #60: No, if somebody says that country music isn't music, then that person

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is an ignorant fuckwad, whether he likes country music or not.

That rap is so closely mapped on to race can explain why so many people who don't like rap ALSO say that it isn't music at all, harumph. The problem is not "not liking" rap. The problem is the quite common claim that it doesn't even qualify as music, period. When you get to the bottom of that laughable claim, it's all too clear where the culutral persuppositions stand.

And since we're doing testimonials of personal taste (though they are irrelevant to my point), I like hip hop, and I like only some country. But I would never claim that country music - even those strands of it that make me want to wretch - isn't music. And therein lies the difference.