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Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong feelings and events—love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more difficult to understand, it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music, sometimes called country-western, comes from the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. Country music is also from traditional cowboy music from the West. The singers usually play the guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first, city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. At the same time, soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.
Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada—in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1,200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor Southerners is now popular all over the world.
1. What is country music mainly about?
2. How many kinds of music does country music come from?
3. Why didn’t city people like country music at first?
4. Who helped make country music popular all over the USA during World War II?
5. Is country music popular with different kinds of people in the world today?
Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong feelings and events—love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more difficult to understand, it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music, sometimes called country-western, comes from the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. Country music is also from traditional cowboy music from the West. The singers usually play the guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first, city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. At the same time, soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.
Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada—in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1,200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor Southerners is now popular all over the world.
1. What is country music mainly about?
Simple but strong feelings and events.
2. How many kinds of music does country music come from?
Two.
3. Why didn’t city people like country music at first?
They thought it was low class.
4. Who helped make country music popular all over the USA during World War II?
Southerners and soldiers.
5. Is country music popular with different kinds of people in the world today?
Yes.
答案
1. Simple but strong feelings and events.
2. Two.
3. They thought it was low class.
4. Southerners and soldiers.
5. Yes.
2. Two.
3. They thought it was low class.
4. Southerners and soldiers.
5. Yes.
