Describe some historical characteristics of country music.
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Country music is a commercial form of folk music first called "hillbilly" music; Roots in the British Isles; Dances (the jig, reel, polka, waltz, and round dances) accompanied by fiddle (violin), the guitar, plucked and strummed dulcimers, piano, and the harmonica; The banjo (of African origin) added after the Civil War ended (1865); End of the 1930s, string bass, the steel guitar, and autoharp also common.
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