This article is about cowboy pop music. For more mainstream fusion of country and pop genres, see Country pop. For Chinese-language popular music, see C-pop.
Cowboy pop
Stylistic origins
Soft rock
cowboy music
experimental pop
psychedelia
countrypolitan
outlaw country
country pop
country
folk pop
pop
Cultural origins
1970s and 1980s in Nashville, Tennessee
Typical instruments
Pedal steel guitar
keyboard
guitar
synthesizer
bass guitar
drum kit
dobro
organ
Other topics
Alternative country
Cowboy pop is a term that American music journalist J. D. Considine first coined in his review of Rubber Rodeo's 1984 album Scenic Views.[1] Although the term was coined in the 1980s, its usage since that time has been varied.[2] In the late 2010s, the term began to be used to describe country-influenced indie rock and indie pop bands.[3][4][5][6]
^As a description of pop ballads used in cowboy films, see Mazor, Barry (2012). Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 143–144. ISBN 978-0199891863.
As a description of soft rock performers who employed cowboy aesthetics in their music, see "Popular Music". Stereo Review. 60: 92. 1995.
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