100 Years of Country Music History
By Abby Monteil, Stacker News
On 4/10/21 at 9:00 AM EDT
Over the past century, the country music genre has become one of the most popular and recognizable within the American music industry. It first originated in the early 1900s, particularly among working-class Southern Americans. Elements of fiddle songs, ballads, banjo, jazz, and blues became entangled together, leading to its official recognition as a genre (often referred to as hillbilly music ) by the 1920s.
From there, country music grew roots in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, where the Grand Ole Opry radio and television show launched the careers of icons like Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash. It was also the place where the genre had its Big Bang moment, when talent scout Ralph Peer began to scout Southern talent and came away with legendary acts that would continue to shape the genre and put Nashville on the map as Music City.
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Almost as long as there’s been television, there’s been music on television. From the music revues of the 1930s BBC to the reality-singing competitions of today, there’s been no shortage of sound to go with the picture. Fifty years ago, some profound changes in the TV landscape affected not one, not two, but three iconic music shows. The three shows, each promoting very different genres, laid new foundations for music on television ten years before the advent of MTV and helped kicked off a run of other programming that shaped the televised delivery of music. Those programs were