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Types of Country Music

Adult Contemporary
Adult Contemporary

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock
Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

Ameripolitan Music
Ameripolitan Music

We’re not leaving Country Music behind, we’re taking “real” country music with us. Music Awards for Outlaw Country, Rockabilly, Honky Tonk & Western Swing

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Anime
Anime

Stereo-typically it would seem so, given that the majority of Anime is staged in urban settings, while the majority of country music is rural inspired, however since 2010 the urban market has seeped into the country music scene. it's not a bad thing just different.

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Appalachian Folk (a Subgenre of Folk Music)
Appalachian Folk (a Subgenre of Folk Music)

Ameripolitan music; Appalachian folk (a subgenre of Folk music); Australian country music. Bush Band; Bakersfield sound; Bluegrass. Old-time bluegrass/Appalachian bluegrass; Traditional bluegrass/Neo-Traditional bluegrass; Progressive bluegrass/Nu-grass; Bluegrass gospel

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Arab pop
Arab pop

Arabic pop music or Arab pop is a subgenre of Pop music and Arabic music.. Arabic pop is mainly produced and originated in Cairo, Egypt; with Beirut as a secondary center. It is an outgrowth of the Arabic film industry (mainly Egyptian movies), also predominantly located in Cairo.. The primary style is a genre that synthetically combines pop melodies with elements of different Arabic regional ...

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Australian Country Music Bush Band
Australian Country Music Bush Band

Australian country music is a part of the music of Australia. There is a broad range of styles, from bluegrass, to yodeling to folk to the more popular. The genre has been influenced by Celtic and English folk music, the Australian bush ballad tradition, as well as by popular American country music.

Bakersfield Sound
Bakersfield Sound

The Bakersfield Sound is a genre of country music developed in the mid- to late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. Bakersfield country was a reaction against the slickly produced, string orchestra-laden Nashville sound, which was becoming popular in the late 1950s.

Baroque pop
Baroque pop

Baroque pop, stylistically, fuses elements of rock with classical music, often incorporating layered harmonies, strings, and horns to achieve a majestic, orchestral sound. Its prominent characteristics are the use of contrapuntal melodies and functional harmony patterns.

Bluegrass
Bluegrass

Unlike mainstream country music, bluegrass is traditionally played on acoustic stringed instruments. The fiddle, five-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, and upright bass (string bass) are often joined by the resonator guitar (also referred to as a Dobro) and (occasionally) harmonica or Jew's harp.

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Blues
Blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.

Blues Acoustic Blues Chicago Blues
Blues Acoustic Blues Chicago Blues

Country blues, which is also known as "folk blues," is a primarily an acoustic guitar-oriented type of blues from which many other styles are derived. It often incorporates elements of gospel, ragtime, hillbilly and Dixieland jazz.

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Bro-Country
Bro-Country

Bro-country is a subgenre of mainstream country music originating in the second decade of the 21st century that is influenced by 21st-century hip hop, hard rock and electronic music. Bro-country songs are often about attractive young women, the consumption of alcohol, partying, and pickup trucks.

Bubblegum pop
Bubblegum pop

Bubblegum pop (also known as bubblegum music or simply bubblegum) is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, which may be produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers and often using unknown singers.

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Cajun
Cajun

Cajun music, an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada. Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole-based zydeco music, both of Acadiana origin, and both of which have influenced the other in many ways.

Canadian Country Music
Canadian Country Music

Appalachian folk music was largely Scottish and Irish, with an important influence also being the African American country blues. Parts of Ontario, British Columbia and the Maritime provinces shared a tradition with the Appalachian region, and country music became popular quite quickly in these places.

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Chalga
Chalga

Chalga (often referred to as pop-folk, short for "popular folk") is a Bulgarian music genre. Chalga or pop-folk is essentially a folk-inspired dance music genre, with a blend of Bulgarian music (Bulgarian ethno-pop genre) and also primary influences from Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Romani and Albanian music.

Chanson
Chanson

Mix - AMERICAN COUNTRY MUSIC (20 songs) YouTube Top 100 Country Songs of 2018 - NEW Country Music Playlist 2018 - Best Country 2018 - Duration: 2:03:11. Music Forever 2,214,634 views

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Children's Music Lullabies Sing-Along
Children's Music Lullabies Sing-Along

Children's music is designed to both educate and entertain children, hopefully at the same time. Most children's records are made for children that have yet to attend school, or are in pre-school.

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Christian pop
Christian pop

Many country music artists cross over into Christian releases so regularly that actually will have two booking agencies - one to book country concerts and one to book Christian concerts. Country music, lyrically, is about real life and for many, real life includes heart-break as well as the faith that gets them through it.

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Classical
Classical

Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades. The classic country format can actually be further divided into two formats.

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Classical Avant-Garde Baroque
Classical Avant-Garde Baroque

Alt-Country. Alternative Rock. ... Avant Garde Classical Avant Garde Classical Serious music from contemporary composers ... and pre-Baroque music. Solo Classical Piano.

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Classical Crossover
Classical Crossover

Although the phenomenon was long common in the music world, the name "classical crossover" was coined by ... successful in country but made the crossover to pop music.

Comedy Novelty Standup Comedy
Comedy Novelty Standup Comedy

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Commercial (Thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles
Commercial (Thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles

Music comes in many different types and styles ranging from traditional rock music to world pop, easy listening and bluegrass. Many genres have a rich history or geographical significance, a cult following or music roots that go far beyond the 20th century.

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Country
Country

Country music (/ ˈ k ʌ n t r i /), also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues.

Country Alternative Country Americana
Country Alternative Country Americana

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music. Alternative country artists are often influenced by alternative rock.

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Electronic
Electronic

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means (electroacoustic music), and that produced using electronics only.

Folk
Folk

Country music evolved out of the folk music tradition and continues to influence it in hindsight. However, much of contemporary country is far more relatable to pop music than to folk. The difference is the involvement of big business in the development of the careers of country stars.

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Jazz
Jazz

It has taken a long time, but country music is now winning grudging acceptance from the jazz world. One of 2008’s best-selling jazz releases was the Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson collaboration, Two Men With the Blues (Blue Note). This country-jazz hybrid was new territory for Marsalis, but Nelson has been singing and picking jazz standards all his life and even recorded a jazz-guitar record, The Gypsy, with Jackie King in 2001.

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New age
New age

Listen to music from New Age Of Country Music like 13 - Come Back Again - Anne Ki, 13 - Come Back Again - Anne Kirkpatrick & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from New Age Of Country Music.

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Reggae
Reggae

In the Philippines, several bands and sound systems play reggae and dancehall music. Their music is called Pinoy reggae. Japanese reggae emerged in the early 1980s. Reggae is becoming more prevalent in Thailand as well. Reggae music is quite popular in Sri Lanka.

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