country and western
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- noun
- /ˈkʌntri ənd ˈwɛstərn/
- Archaic
:
música country
- Do you like country and western music?
- country and western music
- country and western song
- country and western band
I actually just saw it last night that Stevie Wonder had an album called Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
- I actually just saw it last night that Stevie Wonder had an album called Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
- But went to a tie up in the hotel and shot down into the crowd that were at a country and western music festival and just opened fire.
Examples
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As you arrive for the evening's activities, which begin at 6:30 p.m. for cocktails, you'll be greeted by familiar country and western music provided by The Trailriders, a four-piece country band.
Academic text (1996) -
Martel sings a kind of country and western music that used to be very popular in Quebec.
Fiction book (1990) -
The radio cut into the middle of a country and western song.
Fiction book (1998) -
A country and western tune drifts to us from its radio.
Fiction book (1990) -
Friday and Saturday nights, he played drums in a country-and-western band that gigged in middle-income bars.
Fiction book (1998) -
Do you enjoy listening to country and western music while driving?
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Many artists find inspiration in country and western lyrics about life and love.
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She performed a beautiful song in the country and western style at the festival.
Synonyms
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A style of popular music from the southern United States with simple tunes and storytelling lyrics often played on guitar
A style of popular music from the southern United States with guitars and songs about everyday life
How Country
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally links two known categories—'country' (rural music) and 'Western' (a genre tied to the American West)—so a learner who knows the words will get a strong clue that this labels a combined genre. However, recognizing it specifically as a conventional music style requires cultural/disciplinary knowledge (and knowledge that both terms function as music genres), so the relation is partly compositional but not fully predictable.
Etymology
Country and western comes from two kinds of earlier American music: country from songs of the countryside, and western from songs about cowboys and the West. People put those two kinds together as a name for simple songs played on guitars, fiddles and banjos, so that's why country and western now means that style of music.