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Thursday, February 10, 2011

“Faith and family are recurring themes within the musical genre”

Joe Carter:

An examination of the sixty most popular country songs of 2010 reveals that faith and family are recurring themes within the musical genre: Fathers are mentioned in ten of the songs, mothers in seven, and children in five; six of the songs allude to marriage; mentions of prayer, preachers, church, heaven, and God are heard discussed in three songs; and the Bible is named in one. Altogether, twenty-three of the sixty songs include at least one of these themes.

He compares the presence of these things with their absence in pop music and Adult Contemporary. Read the post here.

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