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    Country music originated in the southern United States in the 1920s and often consists of ballads and dance tunes accompanied by string instruments like guitars and fiddles. It gained popularity in the 1940s as a term to encompass Western music that evolved from similar roots. Some of the most popular country singers include Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton.

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    Country music originated in the southern United States in the 1920s and often consists of ballads and dance tunes accompanied by string instruments like guitars and fiddles. It gained popularity in the 1940s as a term to encompass Western music that evolved from similar roots. Some of the most popular country singers include Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton.

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    Country music originated in the southern United States in the 1920s and often consists of ballads and dance tunes accompanied by string instruments like guitars and fiddles. It gained popularity in the 1940s as a term to encompass Western music that evolved from similar roots. Some of the most popular country singers include Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton.

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    Country music originated in the southern United States in the 1920s and often consists of ballads and dance tunes accompanied by string instruments like guitars and fiddles. It gained popularity in the 1940s as a term to encompass Western music that evolved from similar roots. Some of the most popular country singers include Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton.

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    Country music

    What is the country music :

    Country music (frequently referred to as just


    country) is a genre of United States popular
    music that originated in the southern United
    States in the 1920 ,Country music often consists
    of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple
    forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly
    string instruments such as banjos, electric and
    acoustic guitars, dobros and fiddles as well as
    harmonicas.According to Lindsey Starnes, the
    term country music gained popularity in the
    1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly
    music; it came to encompass Western music,
    which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from
    similar roots, in the mid-20th century.

    Some singers of country music :

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