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Pop culture weekend (Aug. 11): Country music and hierarchies

Just how conservative is country music anyway?
Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek star in Coal Miner's Daughter.
Coal Miner's Daughter is such a good movie, and it's a deeply interesting political text to watch in 2023. (Credit: Universal)

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Emily St. James

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