The Emergence of County Music/Country Music's Seminal Acts
England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are the countries where this genre of music comes from
Country
This genre would be the most likely to be used to advance singers’ political and social agenda about the inequalities of American life.
Folk
These were working-class bars that sprung up in the 1930s in the south and southwest.
honky-tonks
This group recorded the country rock hit “Take It Easy.”
The Eagles.
The song “9 to 5” is sung by this artist.
Dolly Parton
This is the commercial and cultural center for country music.
Nashville
These were early talkie Hollywood films starring singing cowboys.
horse operas
When someone refers to the “Nashville Sound” of the 50s, they are referring to this genre.
honky-tonk
Alabama recorded the song in 1991 which is considered “new” traditional country.
"Born Country"
This group began as a four-person all-girl bluegrass group in Dallas and later found success in contemporary country.
The Dixie Chicks
This event forced families from the south to move in order to look for work in the 1930s.
dust bowl and/or great depression
This instrument was a new novelty instrument in the 1930s and quickly found its home in country as well as Hawaiian music.
electric steel guitar
This artist sang this song in 1952 as a rebuttal song to Hank Thompson’s song “The Wild Side of Life”.
Kitty Wells
This song recorded by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings attempted to dispel any myths we had about the cowboy image: message is clear-like them, but don't trust them.
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
Taylor Swift’s music is considered this because it is country in name only.
"cosmetic" country
song sung by Marion Slaughter, who later changed his name to Vernon Dalhart, which was the second best-selling song from the first half of the 20th century (behind Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”)
“The Prisoner’s Song”
This organization established the Archive of American Folk Song in 1929.
Library of Congress
He is known as the “father of bluegrass".
Bill Monroe
Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings were all termed this because they felt country music was losing its identity in its quest for commercial success.
Outlaws
He is known as the “King of Country.”
George Strait
This is one of the most imitated guitar styles in the history of country music-performed by Maybelle Carter.
Thumb-brush
"Goodnight, Irene"
Fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and string bass all form this type of band.
bluegrass band
Roy Orbison was known as the most influential early crossover artist between these two genres.
country and rock
George Strait.