Country Music
Country Music
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In
popular music, country music, also called
country and western music or country-western, is
an amalgam of popular
musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional
folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and
Old-time music that began to develop rapidly in the 1920s.
The term country music began to be widely applied to
the music in the 1940s and was fully embraced in the 1970s
while country and western declined in use.
However, country music is actually a catch-all category
that embraces several different genres of music:
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 the Foggy Mountain Boys; Western which encompasses traditional Western ballads
and Hollywood Cowboy Music,
Western swing, a sophisticated dance music popularized
by
Bob Wills;
Bakersfield sound (popularized by
Buck Owens and Merle Haggard);
Outlaw country;
Cajun; Zydeco;
gospel;
oldtime (generally pre-1930 folk music);
honky tonk;
Appalachian;
rockabilly;
neotraditional country and
jug band.
Each style is unique in its execution, its use of
rhythms, and its chord structures, though many songs have
been adapted to the different country styles. One example is
the tune "Milk Cow Blues", an early blues tune by
Kokomo Arnold that has been performed in a wide variety of
country styles by everyone from Aerosmith to Bob Wills to
Willie Nelson, George Strait to Ricky Nelson and Elvis
Presley.
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