Nashville sound
subgenre of country music / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nashville sound is a sub-genre of country music. It emerged in the late 1950s. It replaced the dominance of honky-tonk (popular during the 1940s and 1950s).[1]
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Nashville sound | |
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Stylistic origins | Country music, pop music |
Cultural origins | 1950s Nashville, Tennessee |
Typical instruments | Guitar, strings, bass, drum, banjo, vocals |
Derivative forms | Countrypolitan, country pop |
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Examples of Nashville sound include Eddy Arnold, Brenda Lee and Patsy Cline.