For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and country music.
可以向不懂西部摇摆乐的人解释,这是融合了爵士乐,节奏布鲁斯,摇滚乐和乡村乐的一种音乐形式。
He turned his country house into a place where professionals and amateurs collaborated in the making of music.
他把他的乡间小屋变成了业内外人士合作制作音乐的场所。
Sam Phillips, who owned Sun, wanted to revolutionise popular music with songs that fused black and white music, and country and blues.
Sun 公司的老板山姆·菲利普斯想要用融合了黑人和白人音乐、乡村音乐和布鲁斯音乐的歌曲来革新流行音乐。
Kim rejects accusations that country music is over-sentimental.
金姆反驳了那些说乡村音乐过于伤感的指责。
When cowboys visited their friends and families on holidays like Thanksgiving, they usually sang and played country-western music.
当牛仔们在感恩节等节日拜访他们的朋友和家人时,他们通常会演唱和演奏西部乡村音乐。
Is it rock, country or classical music?
它是摇滚音乐、乡村音乐还是古典音乐?
It occurred to me that few of my Chinese friends have ever heard true country music.
在我看来,我的中国朋友中几乎没有谁听到过真正的美国乡村音乐。
My favorite part about this story, though, is that Nelson is now part of an army of country music singers who are speaking out for equal rights.
然而这个故事里最令我高兴的一点是,纳尔逊现在是为平等权利而奋斗的乡村音乐歌手组织的一员。
But as I looked at the titles of the songs, I discovered that almost none were what Americans would consider country music.
但是当我看了歌曲的名录时,发现几乎没有一首是美国人所认为的乡村音乐。
Being from Texas and a big fan of country music, I took a look at the CDs there.
作为一个老家是美国得州的人,而且还是个乡村音乐迷,我便细看了那些CD。
“Soldier of Love” is so bereft of saxophone and leans so heavily on acoustic guitar that it’s almost an ambient version of country music, which suits the singer’s strengths just fine.
《爱的战士》中对萨克斯的使用如此稀少而对原音吉他的倚赖如此广泛,差不多可以把它称作一张氛围乐化了的乡村乐。 话说回来,这样的音乐风格能很好地衬托歌手的长处。
The night of country music closed with rapper Ludacris' sharing the stage with Jason Aldean.
乡村音乐之夜以说唱歌手卢达·克里斯和杰森·阿尔·迪恩的同台演出结束。
On the face of it, this is bizarre really because country music is all about heartache.
表面看,这比较奇怪因为乡村音乐是关于头痛的。
The faceof her husband, country music megastar Keith Urban, is all over -- on radiostation billboards, on collages of country crooners painted on the sides ofbuildings.
她丈夫,乡村音乐巨星基斯·厄本的头像到处都是。 广播电台告示牌上,在高楼的两旁的拼贴画上——这是乡村音乐爱好者画上去的。
As important as the music itself, though, is the music's message; here again, country music is very different from pop, rock, rap or other popular music forms.
然而,与音乐本身同样重要的是音乐所包含的内容,而在这一点上,乡村音乐与流行乐、摇滚、说唱乐以及其他流派非常不一样。
Clearly, country music is extremely popular in the United States. Unlike pop, rock and rap, however, country music has a very limited appeal to foreign listeners.
但是,与流行乐、滚摇、说唱乐不同的是,乡村音乐对外国听众的吸引力是有限的。
It has already become a digital media giant, running 80 websites covering everything from fashion (stylelist.com) and country music (theboot.com) to local news (patch.com).
它已经变成了数字媒体业的巨头,经营的80个网站从时尚品(stylelist.com)和乡村音乐(theboot.com)到地方新闻(patch.com),无所不包。
Guitars, banjos and violins — also known as fiddles — give country music its characteristic sound.
吉他、五弦琴和小提琴(violin又名fiddle)可弹奏出乡村音乐的特殊音色。
Sunny Joe was good as his word, and in the early 1930s Les, now known as Rhubarb Red, was playing country music in Chicago.
SunnyJoe和他所说的话一样好,在20世纪30年代早期,Les在芝加哥演奏乡村音乐,已经作为RhubarbRed被大家所熟知。
Sponsorship can lead to musicians wearing a company’s clothes and naming songs after it: Rascall Flatts, a country music band, has done both for American Living, a label carried by JCPenney.
赞助商可以要求歌手们穿上该公司的服装,甚至以公司的名字命名他们的歌曲。 一支名为RascallFlatts的乡村音乐队与“美国生活”(彭尼百货旗下的公司)签订的赞助合同就包括了以上两条。
These themes set country music apart from the music of, say, Britney Spears or N-Sync.
这些主题使乡村音乐有别于诸如小甜甜与N-Sync的音乐。
The portable digital device, given to Bush by his daughters Jenna and Barbara last July, contains much country music, but also songs by Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and the Knack.
布什的iPod便携式数码音乐播放器是他的双胞胎女儿詹娜和芭芭拉去年七月份送给他的,这款音乐播放器中存了很多乡村音乐,还有乔妮·米切尔、范·莫里森和Knack乐队的歌曲。
The portable digital device, given to Bush by his daughters Jenna and Barbara last July, contains much country music, but also songs by Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and the Knack.
布什的iPod便携式数码音乐播放器是他的双胞胎女儿詹娜和芭芭拉去年七月份送给他的,这款音乐播放器中存了很多乡村音乐,还有乔妮·米切尔、范·莫里森和Knack乐队的歌曲。
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