| I would without difficulty believe that | | | | |
| anyone loves music to a certain point. Each | | | | I was exposed to rock and roll through my |
| of us has their views. We begin forming likes | | | | friends, radio and dances and like it. I did |
| and dislikes when we are very young. A lot of | | | | not listen to country western music at all. I |
| our opinions are formed because of our own | | | | held my father's view of it. Then I began |
| experiences and others we form based on what | | | | dating a young man in highschool that |
| we hear from the others around us. Kids | | | | listened to countrywesternmusic all the time. |
| readily pick up what the adults around them | | | | He liked the beat of the music and the |
| are saying. This is the reason why a lot of | | | | stories that most of the lyrics was about. |
| family members belong to the same political | | | | |
| party and practice the same religion; it is | | | | I truly liked that guy so when we began |
| what they grew up with. A great deal of what | | | | dating I put up with the music and tuned it |
| we appreciate comes from what we saw as | | | | out. We then went to a big outdoor concert |
| children. Later we discover that we modify | | | | where performed a lot of the most popular |
| our opinion on something which we have | | | | country western groups. From that point on I |
| experienced for ourselves because the opinion | | | | was addicted. I found that I also appreciated |
| was based on what we were educated rather | | | | the stories the songs was about and the music |
| than from our own experience. | | | | was fun to dance to. At the outdoor concert |
| | | | event I got together with a lot of my |
| In the family I was raised in, my father | | | | boyfriend's friends. They showed me how to |
| wanted to have things quiet. He worked very | | | | line dance to some of the music. After |
| hard at his carreer running a ranch so when | | | | highschool I moved to another city and so I |
| he relaxed for the evening he did not like a | | | | lost touch with my boyfriend. Eventually I |
| great deal of noise or activity going on | | | | married my current husband and we are raising |
| around him. We could have the t.v. set on low | | | | our family. I still listen to all kinds of |
| or he would put on albums of classical music. | | | | music, but every time I hear country western |
| It was the only music he would listen to. If | | | | music I look back to that outdoor show and |
| we had the radio on and country western music | | | | how I started to like it. I make an effort to |
| or rock and roll would play, he would tell us | | | | let my children experience a lot of different |
| to turn it off. He did not understand rock | | | | things when they grow up and try not to |
| and roll and he thought countrywesternmusic | | | | influence their opinions. |
| was a sport. | | | | |