All of these comments, which range from simply ignorant to downright misogynoir, presuppose that commercial country music is a legacy that belongs only to white, rural southerners. And that supposition is just plain wrong.
Enslaved people of the African diaspora created the banjo in the Caribbean in the 1600s. They also played other stringed instruments and became the de facto entertainment and dance bands of European societies.
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