compared to a city where John Denver, for example, considered only "money-hungry fools" and "black limousines" and where others found poverty, violence and unfulfilled dreams. , 2002), but there are attempts to reinvent places outside metropolitan centers by combining music production and performance. Almost by definition it represented rural life, although not without doubts and insecurities or an inability to admit that the land was blameless. 187) and a place where an older social order prevailed. , atvaudeville shows, "montbilly" sheet music copies (playing and singing at home were still popular) and in theaters that showed singing cowboy films, such as those starring GeneAutry, against the iconic visual backdrop: desert landscapes. " In Australia, musical activity has tended to be concentrated in capital cities, as in other cultural branches (Gibson et al. "Country music" only became a general description of country music in the 1950s, when the scope and nature of the genre was recognizable, the most popular physical appearance of the performers was understood, and the characteristics of the audience were understood (Peeter - poeg, 1997, p. in Nashville, Tennessee. . Special events are certainly not limited to music, with writers' festivals (such as Byron Bay, NSW), gourmet wine and food festivals (such as Mudgee, NSW and Mornington Peninsula, Victoria) and specialty festivals (such as the Jacaranda Festival, Grafton) .