# Country Music

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Category: Music
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:42.289Z
Tags: music, country

## Summary

A commercial American popular-music tradition that emerged in the late 1920s from Anglo-Celtic ballad, African-American blues, gospel, and Western cowboy song — first marketed as "hillbilly," now a multi-billion-dollar industry. Key sections include: Country Music.; Opening What country music is.; Chapter I 1927.; Chapter II The first country star.; Chapter III The first family.; Chapter IV Bob Wills.; Chapter V Hank.; Chapter VI The post-war honky-tonk.; Chapter VII Patsy.; Chapter VIII Pop ambition..

## Slide Outline

1. Country Music.
2. Opening What country music is.
3. Chapter I 1927.
4. Chapter II The first country star.
5. Chapter III The first family.
6. Chapter IV Bob Wills.
7. Chapter V Hank.
8. Chapter VI The post-war honky-tonk.
9. Chapter VII Patsy.
10. Chapter VIII Pop ambition.
11. Chapter IX The Man in Black.
12. Chapter X The coal miner's daughter.
13. Chapter XI Wynette and Jones.
14. Chapter XII The 1970s outlaws.
15. Chapter XIII Dolly.
16. Chapter XIV Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
17. Chapter XV The 70s fusion.
18. Chapter XVI The 1980 boom.
19. Chapter XVII The 90s commercial peak.
20. Chapter XVIII The 2003 incident.
21. Chapter XIX The 2000s shift.
22. Chapter XX The 2010s underground.
23. Chapter XXI The Appalachian return.
24. Chapter XXII Cowboy Carter.
25. Chapter XXIII Black country.
26. Chapter XXIV The Texas scene.
27. Chapter XXV Nashville.
28. Chapter XXVI Twenty-five works.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
30. Chapter XXVIII Where the music lives.
31. Chapter XXIX The case.
32. The end of the deck.

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