a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US
Sometimes shortened to: country
country music in American English
a form of popular music which derives from the rural folk music of the southeastern and southwestern U.S., characterized by string-band instrumentation
Examples of 'country music' in a sentence
country music
Country music and folk are quite linked.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Since then we've mostly been listening to folk and country music.