Country music | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/10/2019

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00:01:40 1 Origins
00:02:05 1.1 Role of East Tennessee
00:03:05 2 Generations
00:10:10 3 History
00:10:19 3.1 First generation (1920s)
00:13:18 3.2 Second generation (1930s–1940s)
00:14:48 3.2.1 Singing cowboys and Western swing
00:16:30 3.2.2 Changing instrumentation
00:18:13 3.2.3 Hillbilly boogie
00:19:34 3.2.4 Bluegrass, folk and gospel
00:20:55 3.2.5 Honky tonk
00:22:59 3.3 Third generation (1950s–1960s)
00:25:35 3.3.1 Rockabilly
00:28:12 3.3.2 The Nashville and countrypolitan sounds
00:30:25 3.3.3 Country-soul crossover
00:30:57 3.3.4 Bakersfield sound
00:32:25 3.4 Decline of Western music and the cowboy ballad
00:33:32 3.5 Fourth generation (1970s–1980s)
00:33:45 3.5.1 Outlaw country and Red Dirt
00:35:55 3.5.2 Country pop
00:41:33 3.5.3 Country rock
00:44:37 3.5.4 Neocountry
00:45:56 3.5.5 Truck driving country
00:46:55 3.5.6 Neotraditionalist movement
00:48:36 3.6 Fifth generation (1990s)
00:50:59 3.6.1 Success of female artists
00:54:36 3.6.2 Line dancing revival
00:55:34 3.6.3 Alt-country/Americana
01:00:35 3.7 Sixth generation (2000s–present)
01:02:07 3.7.1 Popular culture
01:12:23 3.7.2 Pop-Country
01:13:14 4 International
01:13:23 4.1 Canada
01:18:48 4.2 Australia
01:28:04 4.3 United Kingdom
01:33:18 4.4 Other international country music
01:34:49 4.4.1 Latin America
01:36:56 4.4.2 Asia
01:39:09 4.4.3 Europe
01:41:33 5 Performers and shows
01:41:44 5.1 US cable television
01:43:00 5.2 Canadian television
01:44:40 5.3 Australian cable television
01:44:59 5.4 UK digital television
01:45:25 5.5 Festivals



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Country music, also known as  country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the  early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues.
Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies mostly accompanied by string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.According to Lindsey Starnes, the term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. In 2009 in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional English ballads, cowboy songs, and the musical traditions of various groups of European immigrants.