Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague

terénní nahrávky, zvukové umění, rádio, zvukové procházky
field recordings, sound art, radio, sound walks

Country Music in Moonlight

Creator: peter (Peter Cusack)
Submitted: 2008-08-17
Recorded: 2008-07-08
Licence: Creative Commons Licence
Download: 080815003312.mp3

Dolni Počernice and Černý Most are on the edge of the city and a walk between them takes you through fields and into a shallow valley with a lake. At night crickets chirp, but ever present trains and traffic tell you this is not the countryside. A bigger surprise was to find a lakeside campsite here where country music radio plays loudly over a sound system. Why is this quintessential American music so popular in the Czech Republic?