Music is an international language. Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music b{#blank#}1{#/blank#}class, after class and at lunch, Students with cars buy large speakers and play music l{#blank#}2{#/blank#}as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the n{#blank#}3{#/blank#}about sports, the weather, and activities of American people. Most of the radio programs are music.

    Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio starts to use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the m{#blank#}4{#/blank#}from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    There are o{#blank#}6{#/blank#}kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was done by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, a{#blank#}7{#/blank#}music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies of Beethoven.