Country music

Guitar ， singer ， simple music, sentimental wordswords  Almost heaven, West Virginia  blue Ridge Mountain, Shenandoah River  Life is old there  older than the trees Younger than the mountains Growing like a breeze  Country roads take me home To the place I belong West Virginia Mountain momma Take me home country roads

A broad category of music: different voice, different instruments

instruments  zither  Lute  banjos

guitar piano Fiddle （小提琴） Harmonica （口琴） And so on……

8 themes of country music  Love  Lovelorn  Cowboy humor  Looking for fun  Rural way of life  The pride of the region  The family  God and the State Country music ingeneral has eightthemes:

Same subject, different way  Take love as an example  City people: Compare with ocean and star  Country people:  Forest and trees, rivers and mountains

Appalachi a Washington (1)It begins with immigrants from Scotland and Ireland to the southeastern mountain area Appalachia (2) Songs and ballads of homeland, lyrics changed to new stories, troubles, new love. 3.The History:

Development: (1) 1920s  TV stations began to broadcast music from villages in order to meet the taste of the countryside audience, such as National Barn Dance in Chicago, Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, which promoted the development of the music  Grand Ole Opry Cast performs “will the circle be unbroken  /watch?v=bi6nyIuYnvg

 Jimmie Rodgers: the creator of country music, was named as “king of country music ”. He recorded 110 songs.  The Carter family contributed a lot to the development of country music.

 (3)1930’s Western Swing was created, Bob Wills “king of Western Swing”  (4)1940’s Bluegrass, appeared.  The famous teams: Bluegrass Boys,  Osborne Brothers,  The Johnson Mountain Boys.

Famous bluegrass Players of bluegrass. Play Together "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms"  /watch?v=iy_CZDtIuz0  (5)1950’s Nashville Sound  Nashville became the center of country music, and the Nashville Sound became another name of it.

Mecca: Nashville Tennesse e

4.Nashville, Tennessee  Mecca  (a place that many people like to visit, especially for a particular reason)  a history about 100years  a population of over 600,000,  almost everyone loves music.  It is said that you can enjoy any of the show for three days there with only $15.

 many music studio s  over half of the tapes in the whole USA are recorded there.  record your own music with $10, if you think your songs are good enough, then you can make it a disc, bring home to enjoy,  or submit it for publication, then make a hit overnight, which is the way that many American singers become famous and popular.

The Second World War and 1960s  The war speed the movement of the people  The spread of the southern youths to the north, west and east enlarged the influences of the country music.  It became popular throughout the whole nation.  named as the country music formally, sometimes Country and Western Music.  1960s  the most glorious era of country music.

 (6)1970’s, country music was not popular  Treason movement (unfaithful to the traditional ones) appeared.  Willie Nelson led the movement and was excluded by the producers in Nashville.

Debate in America :  Country music has changed a lot, it has incorporated many styles of music like jazz, rock and roll, even Mexican and Hawaiian  should it keep its country route  should it develop to become pop music, since it has absorbed a lot of pop music elements in recent years.

Singers Among the many country music singers, John Denver is the most famous. There are some other well-known country music singer ： Kenny Rogers （肯尼 罗杰斯） Vince Gill （文斯 基尔） Shania Twain （仙妮亚 唐恩） Taylor Swift （泰勒 斯威夫特） Carrie Underwood （凯莉 安德伍德）

Singers  (1)John Denver ( )  He has a special relationship with China.  In Oct he is the first western singer who came to China and held concerts.  He has ever sung for President Deng Xiaoping

John Denver 1943 burn in New Mexico,he learned architecture at university He came to the front for Take Me Home, Country Roads. His songs were full of his love to the hometown, the respect of nature, the admire of life and the hope of a beautiful world he drove his pubble-jumper, and the plane fell. Then he left his funs forever. His famous songs: Take Me Home, Country Roads Rocky Mountain High African Sunshine

country music star in Korea ??

The winter of 2006, Taylor Swift released her first single （单曲）, to a popular country star Tim McGraw's name as the title given rise to widespread attention.

Quiz:  A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason-  Include, contain, make a whole with, or mix together—  Promote:  Mecca: