It is amazing to Gomez that in a country where so many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans wear cowboy hats and listen to country music, that not a single performer or honoree at the Academy of Country Music Awards - airing a week from Sunday on CBS - is Hispanic. Or black. But you don't see as many black folks in cowboy hats, big-ass trucks and listening to country music as you do Hispanics. Or at least that has been Gomez's experience. Perhaps Gomez lives in the wrong part of the world.
Yes, it is amazing, but not surprising.
Gomez put in a call to the US Hispanic Country Music Association president Maritza Baca, to try to get a handle on why country music remains the whitest genre since Lawrence Welk, but all we got was the voicemail. We also noticed that Ms. Baca's Web site hasn't been updated since 2006, shortly after Freddie Fender died. Is it possible that Freddie was the last great Latino country star in English?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comments:
espeically since many of us are country music fans!
Post a Comment