| drone | A single tone, sounded continuously or repeated many times.
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| hillbilly music | A term applied to early country music.
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| Grand Ole Opry | The world’s longest-running radio show, which began as a barn-dance radio program in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1925 and continues to present country music’s top performers.
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| yodel | A singing technique that involves changing rapidly back and forth between the normal and falsetto voices.
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| backbeat | A heavy accent on the normally weak second and fourth beats of a measure in quadruple meter.
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| gospel | A folk-like religious music. White gospel includes camp meeting spirituals; black gospel has had far more influence on popular music.
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| bluegrass | A commercial instrumental style, for acoustic instruments, derived from mountain music.
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| acoustic | A natural, as opposed to electric, instrument.
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| Dobro | A wood-body guitar with a metal resonator and an aluminum cone for amplification.
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| rockabilly | A close amalgamation of country music and rock and roll.
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| Nashville sound | Country music’s commercial response to rock and roll, with country themes, pop instrumentation, and a heavy beat.
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| cover recording (cover) | A rerecording of a popular record, sometimes intended to appeal to a broader audience than the original recording addressed.
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| country-western | Western music with a country flavor.
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| western swing | The Texas swing band style, influenced by Mexican and Hawaiian sounds and by jazz.
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| honky-tonk | A Texas vocal style, featuring harsh, honest lyrics.
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