12. • Country music has its roots and beginnings in folk music. The
old cowboy and pioneer songs of the American frontier were popular in the
early twentieth century, and so were arrangements of pop music songs
by rural (or rural-sounding) performers. Country musicians also adapted new
musical instruments, like the Hawaiian steel guitar
•Country found it’s permanent home in Nashville Tennessee in 1925 when
the Nashville Barn Dance opened, which later became the Grand Ole Opry.
•The first commercial recording of “country music” was by Sallie Gooden in
1922 by Victor Records.
•The first singer to have a nationwide hit was Vernon Dalhart in 1924.
•The two most influential groups of this time was the Carter Family and
Jimmie Rodgers. They built the foundation for the genre.
•Jimmie Rodgers was considered the “Father of Country Music” and the Carter
Family was the first family of country music.
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14. Hillbilly
Rock -
Singing Honky A -
Cowboy Tonk billy
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20. Country music that includes elements of popular music;
broadcast on radio & TV out of Nashville, Tennessee
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23. Hillbilly is a term
(often derogatory) for
people who dwell
in rural, mountainous a
reas of the United
States, primarily
southern Appalachia bu
t also the Ozarks.
Owing to its
strongly stereotypical c
onnotations, the term
can be offensive to
those Americans of
Appalachian heritage.
24. A singing cowboy
was a subtype of the
archetypal cowboy
hero of early Western
films, popularized by
many of the B-
movies of the 1930s
and 1940s. The
typical singing
cowboys were white-
hat-wearing, clean-
shaven heroes with
the habit of showing
their emotions in
song.
25. A honky-tonk (also called
a honkatonk, honkey-
tonk, or tonk) is a type
of bar that provides musical
entertainment
(usually country music) to
its patrons. Bars of this
kind are common in
the Southern and Southwest
ern United States.
The term "honky-tonk" has
also been applied to various
styles of 20th-century
American music.
26. Rockabilly is one of the earliest
styles of rock and roll
music, dating to the early
1950s.
The term "rockabilly" is a portmanteau of "rock" (from "rock 'n' roll") and
"hillbilly", the latter a reference to the country music (often called "hillbilly
music" in the 1940s and 1950s) that contributed strongly to the style's
development. Other important influences on rockabilly include western swing,
boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues. While there are notable exceptions, its
origins lie primarily in the Southern United States.
27. Bluegrass, as a distinct musical form, developed from elements of old-
time music and traditional music of the Appalachian region of the United
States
The Appalachian region was
where many English and Ulster-
Scots immigrants settled,
bringing with them the musical
traditions of their homelands.
Hence the sounds of jigs and
reels, especially as played on the
fiddle, were innate to the
developing style. Black
musicians infused characteristics
of the blues to the mix, and in a
development that was key to
shaping the Bluegrass sound,
introduced the iconic banjo to
the region.
28. By the late 1970s and
1980s, many pop music singers
picked up the countrypolitan
style and created what is
known as country pop, the
fusion of country music and
soft rock.
29. Neotraditional country, also
known as "new traditional"
country, is a country music style
that emphasizes the instrumental
background and a "traditional"
country vocal style. Neotraditional
country artists often dress in the
fashions of the country music scene
of the 1940s, 1950s and early
1960s. Some neotraditional artists
are sometimes associated with
the alternative country movement.
