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Country
music
Guitar，singer，simple music,
sentimental words
 Almost heaven, West Virginia
 blue Ridge Mountain,
Shenandoah River
 Life is old there
 older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like a breeze
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Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia
Mountain momma
Take me home country roads
A broad category of music:
different voice, different instruments
instruments
 zither
 Lute
 banjos
Harmonica
（口琴）
Fiddle
（小提琴）
piano
guitar
And so on……
8 themes of country music
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Love
Lovelorn
Cowboy humor
Looking for fun
Rural way of life
The pride of the
region
 The family
 God and the State
Same subject, different way
 Take love as an example
 City people:
Compare with ocean and star
 Country people:
 Forest and trees, rivers and mountains
3.The History:
Washington
(1)It begins with
immigrants from
Scotland and Ireland to
the southeastern
mountain area
Appalachia
(2) Songs and ballads
of homeland, lyrics
changed to new stories
troubles, new love.
Development: (1) 1920s
 TV stations began to
broadcast music from
villages in order to
meet the taste of the
countryside audience,
such as National Barn
Dance in Chicago,
Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville, which
promoted the
development of the
music
 Grand Ole Opry Cast
performs “will the circle
be unbroken
 http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=bi6nyIuYnvg
 Jimmie Rodgers:
the creator of country
music, was named as
“king of country music”.
He recorded 110 songs.
 The Carter family
contributed a lot to the
development of country
music.
 (3)1930’s Western Swing
was created , Bob Wills
“king of Western Swing”
 (4)1940’s Bluegrass,
appeared.
 The famous teams:
Bluegrass Boys,
 Osborne Brothers ,
 The Johnson Mountain
Boys.
Famous bluegrass Players of
bluegrass. Play Together "Roll in My
Sweet Baby's Arms"
 http://www.youtube.com  (5)1950’s Nashville
Sound
/watch?v=iy_CZDtIuz0
 Nashville became
the center of country
music, and the
Nashville Sound
became another name
of it.
Mecca:
Nashville
Tennesse
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Mecca: Nashville Tennessee
4.Nashville, Tennessee
 Mecca
 (a place that many people like to visit,
especially for a particular reason)
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a history about 100years
a population of over 600,000,
almost everyone loves music.
It is said that you can enjoy any of the show
for three days there with only $15.
 many music studios
 over half of the tapes in the whole USA are
recorded there.
 record your own music with $10, if you
think your songs are good enough, then
you can make it a disc, bring home to enjoy,
 or submit it for publication, then make a
hit overnight, which is the way that many
American singers become famous and
popular.
The Second World War and 1960s
 The war speed the
movement of the people
 The spread of the southern
youths to the north , west
and east enlarged the
influences of the country
music.
 It became popular
throughout the whole
nation.
 named as the country
music formally, sometimes
Country and Western
Music.
 1960s
 the most glorious
era of country
music.
 (6)1970’s, country music
was not popular
 Treason movement
(unfaithful to the
traditional ones)
appeared.
 Willie Nelson led the
movement and was
excluded by the
producers in Nashville.
Debate in America :
 Country music has
 should it keep its country
changed a lot , it has
route
incorporated many
 should it develop to
styles of music like
become
pop
music
,
since
jazz, rock and roll,
it has absorbed a lot of
even Mexican and
pop music elements in
Hawaiian
recent years.
Singers
There are some other well-known
country music singer：
Kenny Rogers（肯尼•罗杰斯）
Vince Gill （文斯•基尔）
Shania Twain （仙妮亚•唐恩）
Taylor Swift （泰勒•斯威夫特）
Carrie Underwood （凯莉•安德伍德）
Among the
many country
music
singers,
John Denver
is the most
famous.
Singers
 (1)John Denver (1943-1997)
 He has a special
relationship with China.
 In Oct. 1992 he is the first
western singer who came to
China and held concerts.
 He has ever sung for
President Deng Xiaoping
John Denver
•1943 burn in New Mexico,he learned
architecture at university.
•1971 He came to the front for Take Me Home,
Country Roads.
•His songs were full of his love to the
hometown, the respect of nature, the admire of
life and the hope of a beautiful world.
•1997 he drove his pubble-jumper, and the
plane fell. Then he left his funs forever.
•His famous songs:
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Rocky Mountain High
African Sunshine
country music star in Korea
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Quiz:
 A thought, view, or attitude, especially one
based mainly on emotion instead of reason Include, contain, make a whole with, or mix
together—
 Promote:
 Mecca: