Country music is a genre of United States popular music that was founded in the Southern United States in the 1920's. It's based of south-eastern genre of the United Sates, such as folk music, like Applachian folk music, Blues music, and Western music. Blues modes have been used widely throughout its recorded history. Country music is mostly made up of ballas and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric andacoustic guitars, dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas. it got the name 'Country Music' around the late 1940's where as before was known as Hillbilly Music. Today Country is used to describe the entire genre of which many sub genres within it exists. It is extremely popular in the USA but less so in the UK.
Mise en Scene
- Guitars, banjos and fiddles played by the performers on screen
- Up beat and merry
- Heavy Christian influences
- Western Southern American aesthetic
- Outdoors and one with nature
Stars
- Garth Brooks
- Taylor Swift
- Luke Bryan
- Carrie Underwood
- Jonny Cash
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