{"623192":{"#nid":"623192","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Yea or Neigh: Is \u0027Old Town Road\u0027 2019\u0027s Song of the Summer?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026nbsp;Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/wilson_3\u0022\u003EJoycelyn Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was interviewed in\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/yea-or-neigh-old-town-road-2019s-song-summer\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Yea or Neigh: Is \u0026#39;Old Town Road\u0026#39; 2019\u0026#39;s Song of the Summer?\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Public Broadcasting,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EJuly 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMonths back,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8506428\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-splits-country-music-industry-opinion-genre-streaming-age\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBillboard yanked \u0026#39;Old Town Road\u0026#39; from its Hot Country chart,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;after hearing complaints that, essentially, Atlanta native Lil Nas X and his music weren\u0026#39;t country enough.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/floydcreates.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech professor and music journalist\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Joycelyn Wilson\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bittersoutherner.com\/from-the-southern-perspective\/horses-in-the-back-lil-nas-x-and-cultural-appropriation\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebegs to differ.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Black people, blues music, is very much a part of the development of what we get as country,\u0026quot; Wilson told\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOn Second Thought.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;That storytelling, that sound, and the role of black musicians in creating those stories and those sounds is very much indigenous to the music and the culture but maybe not the genre so much at this point.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/yea-or-neigh-old-town-road-2019s-song-summer\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-10 22:55:35","changed_gmt":"2019-07-10 22:55:35","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Whistle Bistro","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/yea-or-neigh-old-town-road-2019s-song-summer","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618452":{"id":"618452","type":"image","title":"Joycelyn Wilson","body":null,"created":"1551189983","gmt_created":"2019-02-26 14:06:23","changed":"1551189983","gmt_changed":"2019-02-26 14:06:23","alt":"Joycelyn Wilson","file":{"fid":"235401","name":"19c10302-p76-100.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/19c10302-p76-100.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/19c10302-p76-100.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":479729,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/19c10302-p76-100.jpg?itok=kLL-YXfg"}}},"media_ids":["618452"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174257","name":"joycelyn wilson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}