). This music could be more accurately described as folk music, as it was originally a series of non-commercial styles spread among white farmers by word of mouth, but as "folk music" became normalized, the term "folk music" was "discarded". In stories about the American frontier (Whiteoak, 2003) had clear parallels and several local adaptations rasi: performers like Tex Morton, Australian Yodelling. 199). rural areas. In line with such goals, various levels of government have incorporated special events into cultural planning, emphasizing their potential for location and capacity building, as well as economic benefit (Dowling, 1997; see also Australia Council, 1998; Department of Communications, Information Technology). Such estimates of music venues reflect, to some extent, the accumulation of production infrastructures, the raw number of active musicians, and the continuous recording of a relatively dense cast; in other cases, such associations are created as part of media campaigns and local marketing strategies, "invented traditions" (Hobsbawm, 1983) that have become central to the tourism industry and the music economy (Atkinson, 1997; Cohen, 1997; Gibson and Connell 200
) . 301). "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 some cases, the connections between music and place coalesce into a definable "sound", such as the output of the music industry at different times in New Orleans, Seattle, Liverpool, Detroit and San Francisco.
