Country music - Wikipedia. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas.[2][3][4] Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.[5] The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The origins of country music are the folk music of working class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional English ballads, cowboy songs, and various musical traditions from European immigrants. Origins[edit] Immigrants to the southern Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America brought the music and instruments of Europe along with them for nearly 300 years. Role of East Tennessee[edit] The U.S.
Generations[edit] During the fifth generation (1990s), country music became a worldwide phenomenon. Honky tonk[edit] Ricky Van Shelton Home in 2000. John Michael Montgomery - I swear. Untitled. John Wayne Cancer Foundation | Bringing courage, strength, and grit to the fight against cancer. John Wayne – Official Site. Biography – John Wayne. MARION MORRISON WAS BORN IN IOWA IN 1907, came West with his family in 1914, and pretty soon was being called “Duke” by everyone who knew him, after some local firefighters in Glendale, California, where the family eventually settled, thought it would be fun to give the boy the same nickname as his constant companion, a proud Airedale dog named Duke.
Living with his parents, Clyde “Doc” Morrison, a pharmacist, and Mary “Molly” Brown, and alongside his brother Robert, Duke was academically and athletically quite successful at Glendale High School. His exploits there led to a football scholarship at the University of Southern California (USC), where he attended until a bodysurfing injury ended his football dreams, and led him to look for work at local movie studios to support himself once the Great Depression was in full swing.
The 1940’s and ‘50’s saw John Wayne develop into an important figure on the American landscape with a series of starring roles in major Westerns and War pictures. John Wayne (I) Wybitny aktor i jedna z największych legend Hollywood. Symbol amerykańskiego indywidualizmu i patriotyzmu, który popularność zyskał dzięki rolom w westernach. Aktorem został przez przypadek.
W latach 20. XX wieku Wayne był obiecującym sportowcem i od czasu do czasu dorabiał sobie pomagając na planie filmowym. W 1930 roku John Ford polecił go Raoulowi Walshowi do roli w filmie "Droga olbrzymów", która obecnie uważana jest za pierwszą znaczącą kreację w karierze aktora. Pokaż: moja aktywność: Brak danych do wyświetlenia.