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American folk music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music. [ not verified in body ] The music is considered American either because it is native to the United States or because it developed there, out of foreign origins, to such a degree that ...
Oct 14, 2022 · Enjoy over an hour of toe-tapping happy, uplifting, Appalachian Bluegrass music! Play this in your home or office and use it to relax, read or study with.All...
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Dec 17, 2023 · Bill Monroe made the mandolin a required part of the ensemble and invented bluegrass. Jean Ritchie, who came from a noted singing family in the Cumberland Mountain region, said that it wasn’t until the radio reached their house that they all realized that what they had been singing and playing was “hillbilly” music.
The Story of Appalachian Music. The music of Appalachia has deep roots in Western North Carolina. The North Carolina mountains have an unbroken tradition of ballad singing that is still going strong today. Signature styles of banjo playing in old time and bluegrass music were pioneered and popularized by musicians from the North Carolina ...
The Sound of Appalachian Folk · Playlist · 220 songs · 2.2K likes
In fact, music of the Appalachian region has never been one thing, but rather another multifaceted force in the creation of twentieth-century music. Its influence has appeared in blues, jazz, bluegrass, honky tonk, country, gospel, and pop, at the very least. These music styles owe to Appalachia much the same debt they owe to cities and rural ...
This is an amazing and rare look into the traditional folk music of America. From the Smithsonian Folkways description:"Stemming from a want to preserve the ...
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