Country Music Research Paper

There is a music called country and western music. It the lifestyle of 20-century “country music “is very popular and originated amount in the south and the west.”country music” was to be call country and western music but later on, the shortern it up to country song.Country song was adopted in 1949 by the recording industry to replace hillbilly music.In 1920s, small radio appear in the larger southern and midwestern city and many people listen to it.’ Also many people start recording their music for the audiences. “ “National Barn Dance” from Chicago, Ill., begun in 1924, and Grand Ole Opry” from Nashville, Tenn., begun in 1925., and the “Grand Ole Opry help people to get their popularity, also it encourage a lot of people to record their music and song.” ( “Country Music Kickoff in the Big City’’)Many people with talented musician from the hill radio and record studio. Many people use instrument, such as fiddle, guitar,Appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, and …show more content…
The popularity of country music is increasing in the U.S, especially in Nashville. This would not be an unusual sight for Nashville or just about any country tavern in the United States. Except this was not East Texas, but Nairobi in East Africa, where American “country music” has a surprisingly robust, and growing, following. Kenyan country singers are writing their own music about love and longing, in an American twang. A Dolly Parton-loving singer named Esther Konkara has recorded her own songs, which are played on local radio stations. In Kenya, (“country music’s “)popularity dates to the 1940s and crosses classes, but is especially pronounced in the central highlands, the country’s farm belt.He lived for a time in Norway and then the United States before returning to Kenya, where he went professional and rose from playing in small bars to being invited to perform in neighboring countries. ("Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya."