Sunday, May 10, 2020

A linguistic irritant XXI

Although it isn't my favorite genre of music, it should still be labeled correctly.  It's country music, not country and western.  Listeners know which genre you're referring to when you mention Johnny Cash, for instance, so "western" isn't necessary.  Furthermore, I don't hear anyone refer to Classical music as Classical and European or Classical and American music.

Thus, country music is the proper term.