The imagined places of country music were "the landscape of nostalgic salvation and escape from the cold, impersonality of the contemporary cityscape" (Lewis, 1997, p. The term "country" resonated with those who benefited from its commercialization because it was important that the name be associated with rural areas and evoke nostalgic (white) identities. 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. 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) . , 1998; Gibson, 2002); Gibson and Connell, 200
). Country and western music presented "nostalgia for a country paradise, symbolized by longing for a simpler way of life, looking back to a simple place" (Kong, 1995, 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. Alternatively, places and their meanings are contested in and through music, whether it is the multiple and contradictory representation of Los Angeles and New York in rap music, or the celebration or exoticization of ethnicity in "world music. The naming of the music was part of the institutionalization of the genre, while the marketing of other country music, such as the blues, differed racially. Country music, you name it.
