COUNTRY
MUSIC GENRE
Country
Music is derived from or imitating the folk style of the Southern United States
or of the Western cowboy. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally
found in the Southern United States. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic
music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the
1920s.
The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier
term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced
in the 1970s, while country and western has declined in use since that time.
Country music is a catch-all category that embraces several different music genres.
Each style is unique in its execution, use of rhythms, and its chord structures.
Country music subgenres include:- Nashville
sound (the pop-like music very popular in the 1960s);
- bluegrass,
a fast mandolin, banjo, and fiddle-based music popularized by Bill Monroe and
by Flatt and Scruggs;
- Western,
which encompasses traditional Western cowboy campfire ballads and
- Hollywood
cowboy music made famous by Roy Rogers, The Sons of the Pioneers, and Gene Autry;
- Western swing, a
sophisticated dance music popularized by Bob Wills;
- The
Bakersfield sound which used the new Fender Telecaster guitars, a big drum beat
- Outlaw country
made famous in the 1970s by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
- Cajun
and zydeco;
- honky
tonk;
- Old-time music;
- Rockabilly;
- Neotraditional country.
Country
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