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Old 12-18-2008, 12:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What are the defining characteristics of country?
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Old 12-18-2008, 01:15 PM   #2 (permalink)
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An excuse to reclaim Folk music as an American only phenomenom.
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I love country music because it is very honest and based on everyday experiences and troubles. I feel like most country songs are easy to relate to...IMO
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I love American Country Music, sweet sound, romantic lyric. You try to listen the song Remember When by Alan Jackson on Youtube, it's very good song.
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What are the defining characteristics of country?
Just like anything else Country music draws from all sorts of influences then becomes codified. One of the defining aspects of American Country Music is that it's influenced by the traditional (folk) music of the Scotch-Irish people from the Appalachian Mountains.

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The border origin of the Scotch-Irish is supported by study of the traditional music and folklore of the Appalachian Mountains, settled primarily by the Scotch-Irish in the 18th century. Musicologist Cecil Sharp collected hundreds of folk songs in the region, and observed that the musical tradition of the people "seems to point to the North of England, or to the Lowlands, rather than the Highlands, of Scotland, as the country from which they originally migrated. For the Appalachian tunes...have far more affinity with the normal English folk-tune than with that of the Gaelic-speaking Highlander."
Other influences are Cowboy songs, Gospel, Jazz (Western Swing had strong influences from Jazz and Rockabilly from the early era of Rock and Roll is also another.) If you follow Country through its history you can see how it follow what was popular at the time too.

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I don't know about that, for one modern country is closer to Rock then "Folk" in the original meaning of the word.
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Didn't all music originate here?
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