The Kramers are symbols, simultaneously, of the new traditionalism and the new restlessness.

With record sales dropping, Nashville suddenly recognized "new traditionalism."

Country music has been buoyed by a movement called "new traditionalism," trading string sections for old-fashioned steel guitar and fiddle.

However, Jeffrey Stout has written a book about an "alternate philosophy" that will create a path that is between new traditionalism and secular liberalism.

As the 1980's ended, country music was finding a new audience for old-fashioned honky-tonk, renamed "new traditionalism."

Kurt was not enamored with new traditionalism.

Dwight Yoakam, who helped start country's new traditionalism, has a more ambitious model: Elvis Presley.

But the new traditionalism shies away from that side of tradition.

Much of country's "new traditionalism" is little more than trend-following.

"There seems to be a trend toward new traditionalism," Ms. Wong said.