Subgenre Of Country Music

Next, the third genre of the music that have biggest influenced on the music market all time is country music. David(1999) stated that “ the phrase country music refers to songwriting, recording, and creating “stars” in a popular style that is closely related to this southern folk music” (p. 85). Country music was originated around 1920s at part in Southern United States and in Appalachian mountain. Country music first introduced by Eck Robertson which released song called “Sallie Gooden”. At first, this kind of genre music use only string instruments as their melody to substitute to the song such as guitar and acoustic guitar. Along these two types of guitars, this music also comes with the notable exception of the harmonica. After 20 years,
The word of Bluegrass is “refers to mountain music that originally was the music of Appalachian ethnic group” (David, 1999, p.88). The styles of this subgenre are old-time songs and dances. In order to keep the originality of the country music, they only use the old string instruments as their main instruments like guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass fiddle and five-string banjo. The popularity of Bluegrass increases rapidly because most of the night clubs at that time played Bluegrass songs since all of the night club members love this kind of subgenre. The most popular singer that sings Bluegrass song was Bill Monroe that came with his group The Bluegrass boys. Besides that, the next subgenre of country music is Honky-tonk. This subgenre was popular between 1950s to early 1960s. The purpose of Honky-tonk introduced was mainly for dancing. This is because, it has a strong beats and rhythmic. The popularity of Honky-tonk rises among the men population which transplanted Southerners who were now working in the big city factories. The existence of Honky-tonk became more popular when Hanks Williams as the main male singer successfully brought Honky-tonk to the highest level in music chart and well known worldwide especially in