[Ads-l] Antedating of "Country Music"

[Shapiro, Fred]

country music (OED 1942)

1934 Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger 10 June 10/3 (ProQuest)

On Thursday, June 14, 1934, at 1:00 P.M. General Store will present a real country wedding.  It will be an exciting half-hour of real old-fashioned country happenings with good old country music.

Fred Shapiro

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