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The Documentary: Changing country music

Changing country music

27/11/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Changing country music

Lady Nade explores the roots of country and Americana and its debt to black music

Lady Nade explores the roots of country and Americana and its debt to black music, and reflects on her own place in a genre that is only now starting to confront its history.

Of Billboard’s 2019 top 50 country artists, only one was black. Four were women. None of them were black women. Now, with country music under the spotlight as it never has been before, is it finally moving beyond its white, male image?

Americana-folk singer Lady Nade explores the roots of country and Americana and its debt to black music, and reflects on her own place in a genre that is only now starting to confront its history.

Image: Lady Nade (Credit: Arthur René Walwin)

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