country music
Title: country music
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 886 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
country music
Country Music
When some people hear talk of country music, they think only of singers of sad songs with stereotypically twangy accents. These misconceptions did impede country music's growth at its birth, but the stereotype did not prevent it from becoming one of the most popular music forms of the 20th century. In fact, country music is one of the best-selling genres after rock/pop. .
The fiddle (or violin) was the most common instrument since …showed first 75 words of 886 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 886 total…their music noticed. Another influence was seen in the addition of humor-themed and novelty songs, which were popular in travelling shows. After the invention of the microphone and the phonograph in 1877 and the invention of the flat disc in 1887, music could be recorded and replayed. The industrial revolution also allowed for greater communication over large distances and country music was able to travel beyond the American South to the entire country and, eventually, the world.
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