country music
- 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.
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Origin of country music
First recorded in 1965–70
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country-and-westernExamples from the Web for country music
Contemporary Examples
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Lately, Gwyneth Paltrow has been behaving like a country-music star.
The country-music establishment could tolerate pop infiltrating its veins, but patriotism was still its lifeblood.
She is likely to shoehorn her pain into lugubrious scenarios that are perfect for country-music videos.
country music
- a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern USSometimes shortened to: country
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