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Manly Wade Wellman. White Christmas Blue. Nimrod Workman. Categories: Appalachian culture. American folk music. Music of the United States. East Tennessee. Western North Carolina.
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Article. Article. The term "Appalachian music" is in truth an artificial category, created and defined by a small group of scholars in the early twentieth century, but bearing only a limited relationship to the actual musical activity of people living in the Appalachian mountains. Since the region is not only geographically, but also ethnically and musically diverse (and has been since the ...
Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music.It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dancing, clogging, and buck dancing.It is played on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle (see old time fiddling) and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo, guitar, and mandolin.
Sxip Shirey. Jim Shumate. Ricky Skaggs. Chloe Smith (musician) Hobart Smith. Leah Song. Gary Stewart (singer) Ernest Stoneman. Kate Peters Sturgill.
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 ...
Rising Appalachia is an American Appalachian folk music group, led by multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith. Their music is deeply rooted in the landscapes of Atlanta, New Orleans, and the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia. [1] What distinguishes Rising Appalachia is their ability to blend a diverse range of ...
