Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.
在美國，流行音樂是每個學生都喜歡的。學生們帶上有耳機的袖珍收音機，在課前、課後、午餐期間聽音樂。有汽車的學生買上大擴音器，在他們駕車行駛在街道上的時候，把音樂放得山響。
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.
成年司機在開車去工作的時候，收聽車載收音機裡的音樂。他們也聽體育新聞、天氣預報和美國人的生活節目。收音機的大部分節目是音樂。
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular music singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money 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 star.
流行音樂的歌手掙很多錢。他們灌制唱片或磁帶，許多地方的電臺都播放。一旦哪位流行歌手的音樂在全國被廣泛收聽，年輕人就買他或她的磁帶。這些磁帶的部分收人歸歌手所有。無論歌手到哪裡，所有年輕人都想去見他或她。這麼一來，這個歌手就成了全國的歌星。
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was shared by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
還有一些別的種類的音樂，對美國人是很重要的，其中一種叫民間音樂。這種音樂描述美國人的日常生活。另外一種叫作西部或鄉村音樂。這種音樂為牛仔分享，他們在夜間對自己看的牛群歌唱。如今，任何關於鄉村生活或鄉村男孩和女孩愛情的音樂，都叫西部音樂或鄉村音樂。