| LC control no. | gf2014026739 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Country music |
| Variant(s) | Country and western music Hillbilly music Western and country music |
| See also | Popular music |
| Scope note | Country music of the 1940s and later periods. For country music of the 1930s and earlier periods played and sung in the old-time styles, as well as music of later periods played in those styles, see Old-time music. For country lyrics that appear without a musical setting see Country lyrics. |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Old-time music |
| Found in | Grove music online, viewed August 29, 2014 (Country music; origins are the folk music of mostly white, working-class Americans; primary themes include an imagined rural idealism, a celebration of working-class identity, an iconography drawn from the traditions of the American cowboy, and a predominantly Southern, white, Christian, socially conservative and patriotic philosophy) |
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