ABSTRACT
The country-music industry, as they like to call it, has publicized itself with a zeal and success unmatched anywhere else in the music world. Yet, with all this happening, the music itself has become stagnant. Whereas country music in the 1950’s and before was righteously anti-Establishment, the C&W industry of the 1960’s is 100% commercial, tempted more and more every day by the big money of the “easy listening” market.
