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2023-09-06 18:57:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B8994860E462F1A94C71F3FF7083F5A7415D66AE65A62452736A54150C709437
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The tweet does not claim that Chapman’s song was not a critical and commercial success. It is making a specific argument about the whiteness of the country music charts, a whiteness that exists despite the origins of the genre in Afrodiasporic musical forms. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/darius-rucker-and-the-perplexing-whiteness-of-country-music https://www.huffpost.com/entry/country-music-black-artists_n_5d2de760e4b085eda5a25516 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870701538893 https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2021/03/23/country-music-racial-disparity-study-black-artists/4714774001/ https://songdata.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SongData-Watson-Redlining-Country-Music-032021.pdf
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