Bakersfield sound

English

Etymology

Developed in and around Bakersfield, California, during the 1950s.

Proper noun

Bakersfield sound

1. A subgenre of country music developed in the West Coast and popularized during the 1950s and 1960s, featuring Fender Telecaster guitars, a drum backbeat, fiddles and steel guitars, along with stylistic touches from rock and roll music.
   • 2023, Thomas M. Kitts, Keep on Believin', Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 105:

     A subgenre of country music, the Bakersfield Sound emerged out of what Merle Haggard called “the redneck honky-tonks” and what Glen Campbell termed “the fightin' and dancin' clubs” in Bakersfield, California.