What are the different genres within country music?
I’m doing a project on music and I chose country music. I need to know what the different types of genres are in country music. Sorry if the question doesn’t make sense! Thanks!
These are throughout history:
Cajun
Bluegrass
Rockabilly
Honky Tonk
Nashville Sound
Countrypolitan
"alt.country" (the stuff that’s "too country" for modern country radio)
Red Dirt
Country-rock (although, technically, "country" is an adjective for the word "rock")
Western swing
Western
Outlaw
Old-time (usually referring to the fiddle tunes of the 1920s and 30s)
Classic country
Traditional country (usually referring to the vocal acts of the 1920s and 30s)
Categories: country music
Rockabilly
Classic country
Religious country (gospel)
hope I helped….R
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These are throughout history:
Cajun
Bluegrass
Rockabilly
Honky Tonk
Nashville Sound
Countrypolitan
"alt.country" (the stuff that’s "too country" for modern country radio)
Red Dirt
Country-rock (although, technically, "country" is an adjective for the word "rock")
Western swing
Western
Outlaw
Old-time (usually referring to the fiddle tunes of the 1920s and 30s)
Classic country
Traditional country (usually referring to the vocal acts of the 1920s and 30s)
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Pallatable, Tacky, Stupid, Annoying and Completely Superficial. I prefer mine somewhere between Tacky and Stupid.
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Country is the only genre in country.
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Technically, kawasaki is right about country due to the fact that it’s a genre itself. However, since normal people realized that you meant sub genre, you actually got a great answer from isawmarty. The only think I can even think to add to their answer is that I’ve heard red dirt referred to as both red dirt and Texas country (I prefer to call it red dirt myself, since most of those artists tend to sound more like southern rock than pure country…plus they don’t all even come from Texas–Cross Canadian Ragweed sure does kick ass though!).
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