research on various genres : country/folk

country music originally started in the 1940's and was used to tell stories but now it is more ballads. country/folk music was originally know as hillbilly music but this name seemed to offend and was quite derogative therefore it became know as country music and became widely excepted in the 1970's with the help from well known stars such as Kenny rogers and dolly parton. however country music disappeared for a while and is making a come back with star such as Carrie Underwood and Taylor swift who is enticing the younger generation into the country genre



Taylor Swift's songs are events or things that have happened to her in her life and she has said many times that the people she writes about in her songs are the actual names of the people she is singing about and that she would never change their name.
i think that Taylor is enlightening a new generation in to country music which therefore would not have heard it if it was not for her, the things she sings about really hit home with her listeners as she sings about stuff teenagers go through every day.
but i do not think we would use country as our chosen genre as it's target audience would only be a particular range of people and we would have to shoot an original video and to find an un-copyrighted country singer with good lyrics would be quite hard.