country music

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noun
  1. 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.

Origin of country music

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First recorded in 1965–70
  • Also called country-and-western, coun·try-west·ern [kuhn-tree-wes-tern]. /ˈkʌn triˈwɛs tərn/.

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British Dictionary definitions for country music

country music

noun
  1. a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US: Sometimes shortened to: country

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