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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 typified by romantic or melancholy ballads accompanied by acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, violin, and harmonica.
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Also called country-and-western, coun·try-west·ern [kuhn-tree-wes-tern]. /ˈkʌn triˈwɛs tərn/.
Origin of country music
First recorded in 1965–70
Words nearby country music
country gentleman, country house, country kitchen, countryman, country mile, country music, country park, countrypeople, country risk, country rock, countryseat
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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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