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During the mid-1950s a new style of country music became popular, eventually to be referred to as rockabilly. [66] Elvis Presley in 1958 . In 1953, the first all-country radio station was established in Lubbock, Texas. [67] The music of the 1960s and 1970s targeted the American working class, and truckers in particular.
Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have contributed to a new genre. Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and smaller categories, a genealogical chart will usually focus on one major genre and its different strains.
These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
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The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...
Stylistic levels may be hierarchized as an inverted triangle: [16] universals of music system (style) of reference style of a genre or an epoch style of composer X style of a period in the life of a composer work; Nattiez outlines six analytical situations, preferring the sixth:: [17]
A musical instrument is a device that has been modified or constructed specifically for the purpose of making music.In principle, anything that somehow produces sound can serve as a musical instrument, but the term is generally reserved for items having this specific purpose.
The polka dominated instrumental repertoire [3] differed from the music that had been associated with English country dance up to this point. The term seems to have fallen out of regular use in favour of a more relaxed definition of "traditional" perhaps due to confusion with the better known but altogether different American country music.