country musicn.

Brit.

/ˈkʌntrɪ ˌmjuːzɪk/, U.S.

/ˌkəntri ˈmjuzɪk/

Forms: see country n. and adj. and music n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: country n., music n.

Etymology: < country n. + music n.

1. Music originating from and played in the countryside or rural areas, typically viewed as lively, unsophisticated, and distinct from the more formal music of towns and cities. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types

country music1585

water musicc1660

concert music1776

eye music1812

ballet music1813

night music1832

absolute music1856

Tafelmusik1880

Ars Antiqua1886

Ars Nova1886

early music1886

tone poetry1890

mood music1922

Gebrauchsmusik1930

shake music1935

modernistic1938

industrial1942

spasm music1943

musica reservata1944

protest music1949

night music1950

palm court music1958

title music1960

bottleneck guitar1961

rinky-tink1962

Schrammel-musik1967

sweet music1967

chutney1968

roots music1969

electronica1980

multiphonics1983

chutney soca1987

chiptune1992

1585 E. D. Prayse of Nothing sig. A.ii The poore help of cuntrey musicke for a plowemans dumpe.

1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. E3 Frollick my boyes, I come to mar your sport, Your Country musicke must not play at Court.

1635 H. Mason Hearing & Doing xiii. 684 Wee see it every day, that an horne-pipe or a morrice dance, and such countrey musick, doth please the common sort more than any exact and artificiall musick can do.

1792 A. Walker Remarks Tour London to Lakes xvi. 86 Many Roman Catholic customs remain..in their marriages, funerals, festivals, and superstitions..; nay, their country music, of the serious kind, partakes still of the Romish chaunt.

1892 Speaker 21 May 613/2 We have to look to Thomas Hardy's novels for a picture of country music which has become, alas! a thing of the past.

1926 Music & Lett. 7 317 The collectors arrived only in the nick of time. The natural life of traditional country music had been sapped.

2. Popular music of a style originating in folk music of the rural southern United States and cowboy music of the American West, typically consisting of ballads and dance tunes accompanied by fiddle, banjo, guitar, and pedal steel guitar. Cf. country and western n. and hillbilly n. 2.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [noun] > country and western

country music1942

country-western1949

bluegrass1955

country and western1960

Nashville1963

country1969

newgrass1972

alternative country1990

alt-country1993

1942 Billboard 24 Jan. 8/2 Style—Country music and talk.

1942 Billboard 31 Oct. 69/1 The cut-down on the number of folk tunes issued..leaves the purveyors of country music on the horns of a dilemma.

1993 Country Aug. 12/2 She decided to take a serious run at a career in country music.

2009 Vanity Fair Feb. 78/1 Every four years Republicans pretend to love country music down to its dyed roots to show how much they have in common with ‘real Americans’.

Compounds

attributive. Of or relating to this style of music.

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1967 R. Thomas Cast Yellow Shadow xxi. 198 If we got up early enough, I would turn on the radio to a semi-country music station that played a full hour of uninterrupted fundamentalist hymns.]

1968 Melody Maker 30 Nov. 7 Are Britain's country music fans the poor relations of the popular music world?

1992 New Yorker 9 Mar. 42/1 There were six Christian channels, four shopping channels, two country-music video channels.

2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 6 Apr. h8/5 Junior Brown, the amazing guitarist, true country-music artist, and inventor of the ‘guit-steel’, plays at 8 p.m.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	country music
释义	country musicn. Brit. /ˈkʌntrɪ ˌmjuːzɪk/, U.S. /ˌkəntri ˈmjuzɪk/ Forms: see country n. and adj. and music n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: country n., music n. Etymology: < country n. + music n. 1. Music originating from and played in the countryside or rural areas, typically viewed as lively, unsophisticated, and distinct from the more formal music of towns and cities. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types country music1585 water musicc1660 concert music1776 eye music1812 ballet music1813 night music1832 absolute music1856 Tafelmusik1880 Ars Antiqua1886 Ars Nova1886 early music1886 tone poetry1890 mood music1922 Gebrauchsmusik1930 shake music1935 modernistic1938 industrial1942 spasm music1943 musica reservata1944 protest music1949 night music1950 palm court music1958 title music1960 bottleneck guitar1961 rinky-tink1962 Schrammel-musik1967 sweet music1967 chutney1968 roots music1969 electronica1980 multiphonics1983 chutney soca1987 chiptune1992 1585 E. D. Prayse of Nothing sig. A.ii The poore help of cuntrey musicke for a plowemans dumpe. 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. E3 Frollick my boyes, I come to mar your sport, Your Country musicke must not play at Court. 1635 H. Mason Hearing & Doing xiii. 684 Wee see it every day, that an horne-pipe or a morrice dance, and such countrey musick, doth please the common sort more than any exact and artificiall musick can do. 1792 A. Walker Remarks Tour London to Lakes xvi. 86 Many Roman Catholic customs remain..in their marriages, funerals, festivals, and superstitions..; nay, their country music, of the serious kind, partakes still of the Romish chaunt. 1892 Speaker 21 May 613/2 We have to look to Thomas Hardy's novels for a picture of country music which has become, alas! a thing of the past. 1926 Music & Lett. 7 317 The collectors arrived only in the nick of time. The natural life of traditional country music had been sapped. 2. Popular music of a style originating in folk music of the rural southern United States and cowboy music of the American West, typically consisting of ballads and dance tunes accompanied by fiddle, banjo, guitar, and pedal steel guitar. Cf. country and western n. and hillbilly n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [noun] > country and western country music1942 country-western1949 bluegrass1955 country and western1960 Nashville1963 country1969 newgrass1972 alternative country1990 alt-country1993 1942 Billboard 24 Jan. 8/2 Style—Country music and talk. 1942 Billboard 31 Oct. 69/1 The cut-down on the number of folk tunes issued..leaves the purveyors of country music on the horns of a dilemma. 1993 Country Aug. 12/2 She decided to take a serious run at a career in country music. 2009 Vanity Fair Feb. 78/1 Every four years Republicans pretend to love country music down to its dyed roots to show how much they have in common with ‘real Americans’. Compounds attributive. Of or relating to this style of music. ΚΠ 1967 R. Thomas Cast Yellow Shadow xxi. 198 If we got up early enough, I would turn on the radio to a semi-country music station that played a full hour of uninterrupted fundamentalist hymns.] 1968 Melody Maker 30 Nov. 7 Are Britain's country music fans the poor relations of the popular music world? 1992 New Yorker 9 Mar. 42/1 There were six Christian channels, four shopping channels, two country-music video channels. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 6 Apr. h8/5 Junior Brown, the amazing guitarist, true country-music artist, and inventor of the ‘guit-steel’, plays at 8 p.m. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585
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