Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a popular music genre that has its roots in genres such as blues, American folk music (especially Appalachian and western music Popular roots originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

Country music is often composed of ballads and dance melodies with generally simple forms, popular lyrics and harmonies, mostly accompanied by string instruments such as African instrument banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as steels for pedals and dobros) and violins and harmonics. Blue modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.

According to Lindsey Starnes, the term country music gained popularity in the 1940s, preferring the earlier hillbilly term music; He came to understand western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music of similar roots, in the mid-twentieth century. In 2009 in the United States, country music was the most popular radio genre during peak times during the night trip and the second most popular in the morning trip.

The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The origins of country music lie in the popular music of working-class Americans and / or in the American life of the blue-collar workers, which mixed folk songs, Irish and Celtic violin melodies, traditional English ballads, cowboy songs and musical traditions of different groups of European and South American immigrants




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