Country Western dance clubs reached their height of popularity in the 1980s with the release and popularity of the movie Urban Cowboy. Though not as plentiful in number today, country dance clubs are still around and even better than before.

There exists a generation of artists who as students were continually bombarded with the rhetoric of French philosophers and conceptualists from the 1970s and 1980s. There was a lot of talk of semitoics and the nature of a surface reality, even the implosion of meaning. This was at a time when Urban Art was almost in its infancy, and wouldn't receive serious criticism let alone praise for at least another decade.