Princess’ A-level media course blog

  Wider reading on race and Old Town Road 1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  .Rhinestones .Cowboy hats .Cow patterns 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  During the trend where black pop fiigures wore cowboy garb. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  Because 'cowboys' connotes to the image of white cowboys. 4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? New York fashion week (2019): performers were dressed like cowboys 5) Read the section on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road. What does it suggest about race and the country music community? It suggests that they wouldn't consider 'Old town road' to be part of the western music genre because of race, not because of what the music sounds like. 6) What elements of the song and music video are suggested to be authentically country and western? The environment and the horses. 7) What ge...

  Background and cultural contexts 1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? If 'Old town road' should be classified as country music. 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? He is a 20-year-old rapper from Atlanta. Technically his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. And last year he joined SoundCloud, as many people do. And by the end of the year in December he released a song called “Old Town Road.” 3) What is the Yeehaw agenda? The yee haw agenda. This woman, Bri Malandro, tweeted about how a lot of black artists are getting interested in sort of the country aesthetic. And the way that Lil Nas X factored into that is, while people were picking up on the good ol’ cowboy/cowgirl aesthetic, 4) How did the story become a debate about race in America? After billboard removed the song from their list it became a race argument, despite them adm...