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American country music is also known as country western music. Country music uses simple music and words to express everyday feelings such as loneliness love, and sadness. It talks about friends and enemies, trucks and roads, farms and crops. People in many parts of the world like country music, because everyone can understand what the music is about.
It has a very long history. It comes from the folk songs of immigrants (移民) from Britain. Country western music became popular first among cowboys from the American west countryside. Cowboys had to take care of cows day- and night. When they were alone with the cows, they often sang beautiful and peaceful songs to calm the animals and to get over their own fear. They were not well-educated and so they sang about their daily life in very simple words. They played the guitars, the violins, and other instruments. In the South of America, many people added instruments from their homes, like bottles and spoons. When cowboys visited their friends and families on holidays like Thanksgiving, they usually sang and played country western music.
In recent years, many musicians have made country western music a little different from the one in the past. These changes make the songs sound even better. Today singers as Carth Brooks, LeAnn Rimes, and a group called Alabama are singing and playing in different styles. They have brought country western music more and more fans from all over the world.
American country music | |
Introduction | American country music is also___1___ country western music. It expresses everyday feelings ___2___ simple music and words. Things like friends and enemies, trucks and roads are ___3___about in it. Many people in the world like it because the music is___4___ to understand. |
___5___ | It ___6___ from the Britain folk songs and became popular first among cowboys who had to ____7____ after cows day and night in the American west countryside. They played the guitars and other instruments while ____8____ about their daily life in very simple words. When cowboys visited their friends and families on ___9___ . they usually sang and played the music. |
Development | Today, new changes have made it sound better. Singers sing and ___10___in different styles and more and more people like it around the world. |