That doesn't explain it within itself -- there was a similar homonogenization and southernification *within* County and Western music. Hell, even the name alludes to it -- it is "Western" after all not "Southern". And yet all of these distinct regional styles -- from Appalachian Virginia to West Texas -- somehow all got flattened into one Nashville based industry.
Country and Western music?
That doesn't explain it within itself -- there was a similar homonogenization and southernification *within* County and Western music. Hell, even the name alludes to it -- it is "Western" after all not "Southern". And yet all of these distinct regional styles -- from Appalachian Virginia to West Texas -- somehow all got flattened into one Nashville based industry.