Country Music Country Music, also known as country and western, a popular American music genre that originated in the rural South and West in the early 20th century. The record company in 1949 accepted the term country and western music (which was later made into country music) to replace the traditional mountain music. Ultimately, the roots of country music lie in the ballads, folk songs, and popular songs of the English, Scottish, and Irish people living in Appalachia and other parts of the South. In the early 1920s, the traditional string music from the southern mountains began to be recorded commercially, with Fiddlin’ John Carson obtaining the first such recording in 1923. The encouragement and truth of the rural hymns, many of which are reciting personal stories of tragedies that point to Calvin’s misdeeds, are in stark contrast to the sentimentality of many of these…
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