a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US
Sometimes shortened to: country
hillbilly music in American English
noun
1.
folk music combined with elements of popular music in which the banjo, fiddle, and guitar are principal instruments: a type of music that originated in mountain regions of the southern U.S
2.
country-and-western music
Word origin
[1950–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, allograph, bleep, point spread, point-of-sale