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country music

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country music
n.
Popular music based on the folk style of the southern rural United States or on the music of cowboys in the American West. Also called country and western.
country music
n
(Music, other) a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US Sometimes shortened to country
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Noun1.country musiccountry music - a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
C and W, country and western
ethnic music, folk music, folk - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
bluegrass - a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars
hillbilly music - country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States
zydeco - music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues


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Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music In America
Will the Circle be Unbroken: Country Music in America by Banister, Eric / Reviewer's Bookwatch
Think of country music and you think of the South automatically--but California too has been the source of many a notable country music artists, and here's Workin' Man Blues: Country Music In California by Gerald Haslam with the assistance of Alexandra Haslam Russell and Richard Chonto celebrates and highlights that fact.
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Now published in a 25th anniversary edition including a "listener's guide to country music", Watermelon Wine: Remembering the Golden Years of Country Music is a straightforward examination of the country music tradition and the passions that fuel it by award-winning journalist and author Frye Gaillard.
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