Willie Nelson - Willie Nelson

Japanese: ウィリー・ネルソン - うぃりーねるそん
Willie Nelson - Willie Nelson

...popular music with a primary audience of whites living in rural America. Also called Country and Western, or C&W for short. British folk music, which had been handed down mainly in the Appalachian Mountains, came into contact with black music in the South, incorporating a sense of blues and the banjo, an instrument of African origin, and developed into modern folk music in the 1920s and 1930s with the spread of records and radio. In the very early days, it was difficult to draw a clear line between this and folk music, but after Mississippi-born Jimmie Rodgers recorded a sentimental song with guitar and vocals in 1927, which became popular, it rapidly grew into commercial music performed by professional singers.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Willie Nelson" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…アメリカ白人のうちいなかに住む大衆を主な聴衆とするポピュラー音楽。カントリー・アンド・ウェスタン,あるいはそれを略してC & Wとも呼ぶ。アパラチア山脈地方を中心に伝承されてきたイギリス系民謡が,南部の黒人音楽との接触によりブルースの感覚とかアフリカ起源の楽器バンジョーを取り入れ,1920~30年代におけるレコードやラジオの普及にうながされて現代的な民衆音楽として発展したものである。ごく初期では民謡と明確な境界線は引きがたいが,ミシシッピ州生れのロジャーズJimmie Rodgersが27年にギター弾き語りでセンチメンタルな歌をレコード録音し,これが評判になって以来,プロの歌手による商業音楽として急速に成長した。…

※「ウィリー・ネルソン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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