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The origins of Americana music can be traced back to the early 20th century, when rural American musicians began incorporating elements of folk, blues, and country music into their songs. [4] Americana musicians often played acoustic instruments such as the guitar, banjo, fiddle, and upright bass, and their songs typically told stories about ...
This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.
Americana encompasses not only material objects but also people, places, concepts and historical eras which are popularly identified with American culture. The name Americana also refers to Americana music , a genre of contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American music styles, including country , roots rock , folk ...
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Pages in category "Americana music" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Musical divisions based on class are not absolute, however, and are sometimes as much perceived as actual; [7] popular American country music, for example, is a commercial genre designed to "appeal to a working-class identity, whether or not its listeners are actually working class". [8]
Sociomusicology (from Latin: socius, "companion"; from Old French musique; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Old Greek λόγος, lógos : "discourse"), also called music sociology or the sociology of music, refers to both an academic subfield of sociology that is concerned with music (often in combination with other arts), as well as a subfield of musicology that focuses on social ...