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country music
noun
- a style and genre of largely string-accompanied American popular music having roots in the folk music of the Southeast and cowboy music of the West, usually vocalized, generally simple in form and harmony, and typified by romantic or melancholy ballads accompanied by acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, violin, and harmonica.
country music
noun
- a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US Sometimes shortened tocountry
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Word History and Origins
Origin of country music1
First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences
The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
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Anyone turning to country music for life lessons or values had better be content with the advice to simply not be so judgmental!
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As the Dish noted recently, country music once boasted a wide array of complex and diverse political opinions.
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Hasan Elahi fell in love with country music almost as soon as he immigrated to New York City from Bangladesh when he was 7.
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The country music concerts, he said, tended to have the most violence.
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