美国乡村音乐

早期乡村乐 Early Country 牛仔音乐 Cowboy 西部摇摆Western Swing 兰草音乐Blue Grass 酒吧音乐Honkyu-Tonk 乡土摇滚 Rockabilly 纳什维尔之声The Nashville Sound 乡村摇滚Country-rock 叛道运动Outlaw 新传统主义New Traditional Country 新乡村音乐New Country 回归音乐Retro
• In the 1950s,American music was about other things, for example, love and money. • In the 1960s, songs were often full of anger, and some of them made fun of the political leaders.
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在20年代所打下的基础上不断发展 • 下，30年代的乡村音乐融入了西部 的味道。当时的美国东南部，经济 的不景气使得唱片销量急剧下降， 但乡村音乐却通过大量广播的谷仓 舞曲（radio “barn dances”）节目 而维持住了它的份额。此时，乡村 音乐--后来成为西部乡村音乐--已经 在早先的东南部大本营之外流行开 来：1943年的一项调查表明，乡村 音乐已经成为底特律的自动唱片点 唱机种最受欢迎的音乐。而第一乡 村电台--纳什维尔的“grand ole opry”--也找到了它整个40年代的最 爱：roy acuff。 伟大的棒球手 dizzy dean称acuff为“乡下人的皇 帝”，而acuff则渐渐赢得了更尊贵 的“乡村音乐之王”的称号。
在意个多世纪的发展历程中，美国乡村音乐虽然在音乐风格上多种多样，但是几乎都有着共 同的主题思想，即歌曲都毫无例外地反映了普通美国人，特别是生活在社会最底层的普通工 人和农民的爱情婚姻生活、宗教信仰、对乡土的热爱和眷恋以及他们生活中最普通也最感人 的经历。乡村音乐风格纯朴、结构简单、不事词藻、说唱结合、时弹时唱、表现丰富、形式 活泼。歌词内容像是叙述一段故事，通常以人们日常生活为背景，主要表达美国劳动人民的 感情，一般都以母亲、家庭、游荡者、监狱、苦工、失恋、酗酒和宗教等为主题。 但是不管 如何，美国乡村音乐是名副其实的美国“特产”，也是美国人民献给世界人民的一份美好礼 物。它展现了美国民众对音乐的独特气质以及对生活别样的表达方式。它表达了美国人民对 音乐的追求，对生活的美好愿望，对灾难的勇敢面对，对社会不公平待遇的抗争……在各方 面不同程度的影响着美国人民的生活。
• Today country music has become big business. It brings in a lot of money. Now, it hasreached all parts of the States, from Los Angeles in the west to New York in the east. It remains much the same as before.
在乡村音乐的发展过程中，电台播放大量的乡村音乐也起了很重要的作用。通 过电台广播与录制唱片，也造就了一大批乡村音乐表演者. 第二次世界大战期间 及大战之后，人口的频繁流动与密切交往，促进了文化音乐的交流与渗透，乡 村音乐又揉合了黑人音乐、爵士音乐、拉丁美洲的民间音乐的因素，形成了一 种风格独特的、美国本土的民族音乐，从而使乡村音乐在美国听众中打下了巩 固的基础。通过美国军人，又把美国乡村音乐带到世界各地，特别是欧洲地区， 从而又形成了一种具有国际性的音乐文化。 在这同时，有几百万乡村白人和南 部地区的黑人进入大城市，改变了原有的城市人口结构，也为乡村音乐和“节 奏与布鲁斯”在城市中进一步相互影响和融合打下了基础。 In the process of the development of country music, radio broadcast a lot of country music,which plays a very important role. Through radio broadcasting and recording, a large number of country music performers turned up. During the second world war, and war, population of frequent flow and close contacts, promoted the cultural exchange and penetration of the music, country music and black music, mixed with jazz music, Latin American folk music, the factor of forming a unique style, native American national music, making the country music in the United States in the audience a solid foundation. Through the U.S. troops, the American country music was brought to the world, especially in Europe, and thus formed a kind of music with international culture. At the same time, there were millions of rural whites and blacks in the south in big cities, which changed the original city population structure, and laid the foundation for the further influence and fusion of the country music and "rhythm and blues" in the cities.
美国乡村音乐
起源于美国南部与阿帕拉契山区，可追溯至1920年代，融合了传统民谣 音乐、凯尔特音乐、福音音乐及古时音乐。乡村音乐的曲调，一般都很 流畅、动听，曲式结构也比较简单。多为歌谣体、二部曲式或三部式。
Originated in the United States and the southern Appalachian Mountains, can be traced back to the 1920s, a fusion of traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music and classical music. Country music tunes, are generally smooth, beautiful, form structure is relatively simple. Many songs, two form or trilogy.
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kinds of music forms interacted and produced new kind of music to this area of North America. This is the early country music, also called hillbilly music.
Continues to build on the foundation laid in the 1920s, the 1930s country music integrated into the western taste. The southeastern United States, the economic downturn makes a sharp decline in record sales, country music adopted by the the large amount of radio barn dance (the radio "barn dances") program to sustain its share. At this point, country music - and later become a country and western music has been popular in the earlier base camp outside the southeastern open: a survey in 1943, country music has become the Detroit auto jukebox of the most popular music. The first rural radio - Nashville's "grand ole opry" found it through the 1940s favorite: the roy acuff. The great baseball player dizzy Dean related to said acuff as "countryman emperor, the while acuff gradually won more honorable title of" king of country music ".
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The development

Country music ,also known as country and Western ,is a contemporary popular music, in 1940, when country music ( hillbilly music ) status gradually declined, people began to unify the terminology" country music" as an address,1970's cape and greater, and in all parts of the world ( in addition to the United States of America and Ireland ) replaced the" country and Western".
About a century in the course of development, American country music is varied in the style , but almost all share a common theme: the song without exception reflects the ordinary Americans, especially the life community in the bottom of the ordinary workers and peasants of the love and marriage life、religious belief, for the local love and devotion as well as their lives in the most common and most moving experience. Country music style is simple with simple structure, no words, rap, sing, when combined with elastic performance of rich, the form is lively. The content of the lyrics is described as a story, usually in people's daily life as the background, Mainly express U.S. labor people's feelings, generally to mother, family, rogue, prison, hard, brokenhearted, alcohol and religious themes. But no matter how, American country music is the name matches the reality of the United States "products", is the American people to which the people of the world a better gift. It show the American people the distinctive temperament of music and for life another expression. It expresses the American people to pursue music, a life of good will, the face of disaster, the unfair treatment to social struggle...... In various aspects the influence of different level with the American people's life.
• One subject is “the good old days ”. In “the good old days” people thought well of each other. People loved life in the open air.They believed that the best things in life were free: sunshine, laughing,walks in the beauty of the country, friends and music.
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the early 1900s,immigrants from the Appalachian Mountains of North America immigrated into the southern. brought their music and instruments along with them. The instruments include the fiddle, the mandolin, the guitar and the banjo.