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. Country music came to Australia mainly through radio broadcasts, music distribution. metropolitan and international media (Peterson, 1997; Jensen, 1998). , 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. However, music festivals have become by far the most common, from the annual East CoastBlues and Sweden Festival of Byron Bay to the Elvis Revival Festival in Parkes, NSW; From the Port Fairy Folk Festival (Victoria) to many country music festivals in Gympie (Queensland), Mildura (New South Wales), Port Pirie (South Australia) and Tamworth (see Aldskogius, 1993; Derrett et al. 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. rural areas. 301). during the second war because of its communist meanings' (Hemphill, 1970) which has since remained a term used in connection with specific forms of acoustic music apparently related to left-wing politics
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Country music was an arena in which stories about rural life and national identity were constructed not only in America but also in other countries where the genre gained public support .
