outline #2

Casey Clark
Josh Stein
English 004
2/25/11

Outline #2

Intro.
· Hook- people who say they like everything except country are, most likely, unwittingly using the same presupposed prejudice as the main-stream media uses against rap and heavy metal; Making a decision without ever actually hearing the music, but only associating it with images and main-stream messages that they see as uncool.
· Thesis- country music is seen through popular images as what is typically a bunch of people in cowboy hats singing about Jesus and pick-up trucks. However, as with most imagery in the media, these are only the artists that are paid to be images or are found in the media only because many people will instantly associated them with that genre.

· Definition- the pop definition- cowboy hats, trucks, and Jesus

More universal definition- songs with include themes about everyday people, heavy lyrical dependency, simple melody typically with a guitar and/or fiddle-modern country may include drums.
Body
· Presupposed due to imagery- bastardization of the cowboy hat, they are everywhere now and are worn by people who have never even seen a horse in real life. The symbol is becoming more distant from the actual use as a sunshade for working in summer temperatures.
· Boots- many people that wear cowboy boots don’t use them for their function of riding a horse, that was the entire purpose of the boot. Specifically designed for a stirrup. Now its association with country music makes it fashion attire not work attire.
· The idea of a working person with a lower intellectual capacity. People think of country music listeners as being close minded and unintelligible.
· Restate hook- (presupposition)
· CA- the same thing can be said of someone that listens to many other forms of music (need examples)
· The media has portrayed country music as having a higher moral standard. Seen as unlikeable in some segments of society.
· CA- however, many country songs deal with the same sort of immorality seen in rap songs, heavy metal, and rock
Con.
· The association with country music and its images is usually portrayed as positive in main stream media. Morally superior than rap or heavy metal. However the music of country music has many of the same themes found in these two genres, but they are not attacked by the media.
· What is seen in the general media is not how things are in reality the only sure way to see things for what they really are is to investigate them for yourself and leave out prejudice and assumption.