The roots of what we think of nowadays as country music can be drawn back in large part to the eighteenth-century American South, as huge numbers of English-speaking immigrants enthused into the area. By the early nineteenth century, approximately of these Anglo pioneers had stimulated as far west as Texas. As a mainly rural, agricultural society, the South continued somewhat socially isolated from the progressively developed and industrialized North. So, southerners inclined to reservation the traditional folk music of their family homelands. But, even though southern folk songs characteristically were founded on traditional music from the British Isles, they underwent significant transformation according to the particular ethnic and social
