单词 | country pop |
释义 | > as lemmascountry pop b. Designating types of music which are influenced by rural southern and western American folk music traditions, esp. those which combine elements of country music and another genre, as country jazz, country pop, country soul, etc. Cf. also country rock n.2 ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 16 Aug. 23 A snappy country-blues number. 1949 Billboard 21 May 117/2 Bouncy, easy-going country boogie is fine for dancing, but doesn't offer much lyrically. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People (1995) xi. 173 The blues could extend in a kind of continuum from rhythm & blues all the way back to country blues. 1968 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 25 Aug. 5 b/1 In the world of today's music, ‘Harper Valley’ would probably be classified as ‘country pop’. 1970 Chicago Tribune 2 Aug. f4/3 Country soul. In the lexicon of rock music, it's come to mean a musical journey down home, music with a western tinge. 1975 B. C. Malone & J. McCulloh in B. C. Malone Stars Country Music 417 Traditionalists saw in country pop the death of their beloved music. 1977 Washington Post 7 Sept. c10 The kind of music being made up on the stage was both distinctive (country funk, I guess you'd call it) and expertly produced. 1985 Spin May 13/1 Since then, Jason and the Scorchers have howled their way to the forefront of the musically suspect genre of country punk. 1994 D. Marsh & J. Bernard New Bk. Rock Lists xvi. 346 He is equally adept at..country jazz. 1998 Newsweek 6 July 68/2 Rolling Stone has hailed it ‘a country-soul masterpiece’. 2006 R. Powers Echo Maker 67 Country metal exists... It's a totally recognized genre. < as lemmas |
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