The main components of the modern country music style date back to music traditions throughout the Southern United States and Southwestern United States, while its place in American popular music was established in the 1920s during the early days of music recording.
Main articles: Appalachian music, Blues, Celtic folk, Old-time music, and Western music (North America) 6.1 Subgenres misrepresented on streaming services.3.3.2 The Nashville and countrypolitan sounds.3.2.1 Singing cowboys and western swing.It has historical roots in the indigenous music of North America, Celtic music, early music of the British Isles, jota, Irish traditional music, singing cowboys, corrido, ranchera, norteño, French folk music, African-American music, and other traditional folk music traditions. The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working class Americans and blue-collar American life. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. In 2009, in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute. The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to hillbilly music it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Its popularized roots originate in the Southern and Southwestern United States of the early 1920s.Ĭountry music often consists of ballads and dance tunes (most commonly known as "Honky Tonk music") with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated with blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country.
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