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给你些资料好了 自己组装一下~Popular music based on the folk style of the southern rural United States or on the music of cowboys in the American West. Also called country and western.a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instrumentsOne of the most popular forms of contemporary music is country music, which found its humble beginnings in the early 1920s when folk music was taken one step further. Those who claimed fame, (mostly from the Appalachians) for having introduced folk music to the nation were now in the first quarter of the twentieth century introducing a slightly more sophisticated styling of the ‘hillbilly’ sound already made popular. 这个解释应该是最全的 可惜我现在打不开这个页面 你试试把
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Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains.It has roots in traditional folk music,Celtic music,gospel music,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,except in the United Kingdom and Ireland,where it is still commonly used in the United States. In the Southwestern United States a different mix of ethnic groups created the music that became the Western music of the term country and Western.(Capitalizing "Western" here is grammatically correct,thought "country" would not be,accurately,as the former is used in a proper noun context,as in,Western United States,since this was the point behind the term Western songs.) Country music has produced two of the top selling solo artists of all time.Elvis Presley,who was known early on as “The Hillbilly Cat” and was a regular on the radio program Louisiana Hayride,went on to become a defining figure in the emerging genre of rock 'n roll.Contemporary musician Garth Brooks,with 128 million albums sold,is the top-selling solo artist in U.S.history. While album sales of most musical genres have declined,country music experienced one of its best years in 2006,when,during the first six months of the year,U.S.sales of country albums increased by 17.7 percent to 36 million.Moreover,country music listening nationwide has remained steady for almost a decade,reaching 77.3 million adults every week according to the radio-ratings agency Arbitron Inc. The term "country music" is used to describe many styles and subgenres,such as alternative country,made famous by Gram Parsons.
