Country music has been an extremely popular genre of music for so long. Country Music can be traced to the deep south or southwest of America.
The name of the genre says it all:Country music. Back in the 19th Century, people especially young men
would spend their days working hard on the fields. After a while they would sit down and take small breaks
in between work. Sometimes a worker would have a harmonica, or a guitar with them and they would start singing
songs about weeend plans, but they'd mainly make up songs about work: Work songs. Pretty straight up huh?
What people don't usually realize is that there is black history in country music as there is in
every genre of music. Yes white men on the fields would mae work songs, but who were the people that
made up a large portion of Americas workforce in the 18th-19th century? Black men and women.They'd
mae sings up about work and other things using harmonicas, their hands to clap and their feet to stomp.They were
geniuses. Country music became extremely popular, esecially within the woring class because they could
relate to the music. The 80's and 90's were when country BOOMED. Slightly hidden by the popular rise of "grunge"
music, people didn't realize what was going on, but artists like Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Shania Twain
were making it BIG.