country music

Country Music

Sometimes city people think they are smarter than country people.

People who live in cities often laugh at the simple of life in the country. But people do not laugh at country music. It is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today.

          Maybe country music is very popular because it is about simple but strong human feeling and events like love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated and difficult, it is good to hear about simple, ordinary people.

          Country music is sometimes called country-western music. It comes from kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the American West. The singers usually play guitars or electric guitars when they sing.

          Country music became very popular in the South. During world war II, thousands of people from the South moved to the Northeast and the Midwest to work in factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South and learned to like country music there. Slowly it became popular all over the United States.

          In 1925 a radio program from Nashville, Tennessee, started to which means the grand or wonderful old opera. Today this program broadcasts from the largest television studio in the world, and Nashville is the center of country music. Musicians record their music in more than 60 recording studio that are open 24 hours a day! There are also hotels, stores that sell cowboy clothes, and tours for people to see the homes of famous country music singers. Nashville is the center also has an entertainment park and the country Music Hall of Fame-a place like a museum with pictures and souvenirs of famous country music stars. Millions of people visit Nashville every year to hear country music and experience the country way of life. In addition to Nashville, the small town of Branson, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains has recently become a very popular place to see country music shows.

          Today country music is popular everywhere in the United States and Canada-in small towns and in big cities. There are more than people in many other countries around the world also enjoy country music and even sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboy in the West and poor mountain people in the East is now popular all over the world.