Individual Authenticity

In our modern society today there has become a great importance for personal or individual authenticity, but to really grasp and understand the struggle for person authenticity the current cultural climate people live in today must be examined. Going back to pre-industrialized societies changes occurred over time and multiple different generations but now in our modern post-industrial society there are changes that occur multiple different times within a person’s lifetime alone. Especially since pop culture can be so easily marketed in our modern society through the new technological advances the current society has experienced in their lifetime alone. There is this rapid change that makes people in the society shift from maintaining core traditions,

For example in the country music industry, it would be a predominately white genre but that does not mean that there have been no African-American individuals who have not made it in the industry. As Peterson states in his, “Finding Country Authenticity,” the first country music record was made in Atlanta, Georgia, in mid June 1923. This was not accepted by the recording session in New York but was distributed in the Atlanta area. Since country music had become popular, it was mainly the white cowboy look and style that took over the genre but there have been a few African-American artists who have taken this stigma out of the way. The main example that would be in society today would be Darius Rucker but he did not start out as a country artist. He originally gained his fame from being the lead singer in a rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, then he went to the R&B and finally six years later he signed a record deal in Nashville. He made the first black country artist to ever reach the number 1 spot on the Hot Country Songs chart since Charley Pride did it in