country music

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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 typidied by romantic or melancholy ballads accompanied by acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, violin, and harmonica.

Origin of country music

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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Related Words for country music

country-and-western

Examples from the Web for country music

Contemporary Examples of country music

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December 18, 2012
Lately, Gwyneth Paltrow has been behaving like a country-music star.
Gwyneth Paltrow and the Rise of the Country Carpetbagger
Bryan Curtis
January 6, 2011
The country-music establishment could tolerate pop infiltrating its veins, but patriotism was still its lifeblood.
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Lauren Streib
May 3, 2010
She is likely to shoehorn her pain into lugubrious scenarios that are perfect for country-music videos.
Battle of the Blondes
Bryan Curtis
January 28, 2010

British Dictionary definitions for country music

country music

noun

a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern USSometimes shortened to: country

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