country music


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.
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

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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 US Sometimes shortened to: country