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Immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of the Old World along with them for nearly 300 years. They brought some of their most important valuables with them, and to most of them this was an instrument: “Early Irish settlers enjoyed the fiddle because it could be played to sound sad and mournful or bright and bouncy”.The Irish fiddle, the German derived dulcimer, the Italian mandolin, the Spanish guitar, and the West African banjo were the most common musical instruments.
According to Historian Bill Malone in Country Music U.S.A, country music was “introduced to the world as a southern phenomenon. In the South, folk music was a combination of cultural strains, combining musical traditions of a variety of ethnic groups in the region. Country music is often erroneously thought of as solely the creation of European Americans. However, a great deal of style and of course, the banjo, a major instrument in most early American folk songs came from African Americans. One of the reasons country music was created by African Americans, as well as European Americans, is because blacks and whites in rural communities in the south often worked and played together |
A countryzene az Amerikai Egyesült Államok déli részén élő, főleg skótok, írek zenéje, akik a saját népzenéjüket az Amerikában hallott blues-zal keverték. A stílusnak ezen kívül gospel gyökerei is vannak. A country amerikai „farmerzene”, mely elsősorban a fehérek körében népszerű. Kezdetben a gyapotföldeken dolgozók zenéje volt, munkadalok formájában.
Az első úttörők a countryzene atyjának is nevezett Jimmie Rodgers és a Carter Family voltak, akik 1927-ben az első country lemezfelvételt készítették. Country este un gen muzical apărut în anii 1920 în sudul SUA. Își are originea în muzica irlandeză, însă are influențe și din alte genuri, cum ar fi Bluegrass, blues sau gospel.
Istoric Începând cu anii 1950 se simt și puternice influențe de rock and roll, precum și a altor genuri ulterioare de rock |
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