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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Phone:
+1 615-416-2001

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


Country music, also known as country and western , and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues. Country music often consists a lot of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars , and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.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. In 2009 in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The origins of country music are the folk music of working class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional English ballads, cowboy songs, and various musical traditions from European immigrants.
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