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Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
All that glitters: country music in America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780879725747. Malone, Bill C. - McCulloh, Judith (1975) Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez, University of Illinois Press; Mazor, Barry (2014). Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-61374-021-7.
Webb Pierce, classic honky-tonker who dominated '50s country music. Kitty Wells, country's first female superstar, called the "Queen of Country Music". Johnny Cash created the boom-chicka-boom sound and recorded music from 1954 to 2003. Ray Price, created the 4/4 shuffle which transformed traditional country music.
Charles' Modern Sounds (1962) records featured a fusion of soul and country music, country soul, and crossed racial barriers in music at the time. [88] One of Cooke's most well-known songs "A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) became accepted as a classic and an anthem of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. [89]
Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North
Music producer Killah B talks with USA TODAY about producing his first country song — Beyoncé's "Texas Hold 'Em" — and making history with the hit.
Just like cowboys and barbecue, Black folks created country music. This is not complicated. But this is Black history. The banjo, an important instrument in country music, originated in Africa ...
Outlaw country [2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.