Rules Of The Game #26: Because Of You I Am Afraid

[koganbot]

I'M BACK! Well, I was always here, but my column is back, dealing with an issue that has stirred the hearts and shaken the minds of many a poptimist: what is the nature of legacy and continuity in country music; or, if my mother blows her house to pieces, does that mean I have to blow my house to pieces too when I grow up?

The Rules Of The Game #26: Because Of You I Am Afraid

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

[koganbot]

Thank you.

What is the role of country music in Japan? (I assume there must be, since Japan has appropriated pretty much all of U.S. pop music at some time or other.) And - this being a very different question - is there anything like the American Southeast in Japan, with a rural or exrural populace, lots of inferiority complexes, and music that's trying simultaneously to and portray itself as hewing to the essence of the rural, traditional past?