in those places or songs that mythologize specific cities in the lyrics (McLeay, 199
; Kong, 1995; Smith, 1997; Connell and Gibson, 2003). In stories about the American frontier (Whiteoak, 2003) had clear parallels and several local adaptations rasi: performers like Tex Morton, Australian Yodelling. Festivals have been one means of positioning places in national media landscapes, not only attracting tourists, but also changing the identity of places in ways that counter representations of rural decline and create a sense of community (Duffy, 2000). 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. and the Arts, 2002). , 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. Gibson, D. 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. Almost by definition it represented rural life, although not without doubts and insecurities or an inability to admit that the land was blameless. 301).
