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Dido Twite, a young English girl, is rescued from the ship by a Nantucket ship and is taken to Nantucket. There, together with Dutiful Penitence, the captain’s daughter, they must use all their courage and wit to stop a group of Hanoverians from aiming the world’s largest canon at England and destroying the English parliament. It is a very hard and dangerous task and the two girls might not come out alive. MUSIC, COUNTRY. A commercial offshoot of the folk music of the rural South, country music is an American art form that gained worldwide appeal after World War II. Originally known as hillbilly or mountain music, country music grew from the folk music that was brought to North America by Anglo-Celtic settlers in the 1700s and 1800s. The music changed as it came in contact with ethnic musics Acadian (Cajun) in Louisiana, Latin in the Southwest, African throughout much of the South and such popular music as that found in vaudeville, minstrel shows, and Hawaiian tent shows. It was also called country and Western music because of its popularity with cowboys. (See also Folk Music.) Traditionally country musicians have been most proficient on stringed instruments. The violin, or fiddle, was the most popular instrument on the frontier because of its easy portability. To this day fiddle contests remain a feature of the country music scene. The banjo was adapted from the African American culture, and the five-string model is now universally popular among performers of the style known as bluegrass. The guitar has long been a staple of country music bands and singers. String bass and Hawaiian guitar have been used since the 1920s, and their modern descendants are the electric bass and the pedal steel guitar.
Approximate Word count = 1126
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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