![]() The instrumentation included the banjo, introduced by the African (bank robberies, natural disasters, murders, train accidents). Subject of love, to which they preferred pratical issues such as real-worldĮxperiences (ranching, logging, mining, railroads) and real-world tragedies ![]() On the other hand, were completely different. The musical styles were reminiscent of their British ancestors. Got transplanted into the new world and got contaminated by the religious The poor man's version of the French "cotillion" and "quadrille") (Scottish reels, Irish jigs, and square dances, Its origins were lost in the early decades of colonization, when the a mixture of hobo and cowboy songs,Īnd Tennessee-born Harry McClintock, the author of the hobo ballads Big Rock Candy Mountain (1928) and Hallelujah Bum Again (1926).Ĭountry music was a federation of styles, rather than a monolithic style. Hobo's Lullaby (1934) and The Cowboy's Prayer (1934), i.e. The Drifter (1929), Blue Undertaker's Blues (1930), Labels flocked to the South to record singing cowboys, and singing cowboys wereĮxhibited in the big cities of the North. Texas-bred Carl Sprague became the first major musician to record cowboy songs (the first "singing cowboy" of country music).Īnd, finally, in 1925, Nashville's first radio station (WSM) began broadcasting a barn dance that would eventually change name to "Grand Ole Opry". With When The Work's All Done This Fall (1925), In 1924, Chicago's radio station WLS (originally "World's Largest Store") beganīroadcasting a barn dance that could be heard throughout the Midwest. "Uncle" Dave Macon's Hill Billie Blues (1924). The term "hillbilly" was actually introduced by Race music (that was only black) and hillbilly music (that was only white). The recording industry started dividing popular music into two categories: The official founding of "country" music (although Texas fiddlerĮck Roberton had already recorded the year before). John Carson recorded (in Atlanta) two "hillbilly" (i.e., southern rural) songs, In june 1923, 55-year old Georgia's fiddler ![]() A little later, a radio station fromįort Worth, in Texas (WBAP), launched the first "barn dance" show. In 1922, a radio station based in Georgia (WSM) was the first to broadcastįolk songs to its audience. Many of those regions were not settled until 1835, and then they were settledīy very poor immigrants, thus creating a landscape of rather backwardsĬommunities, still attached to their traditions but also preoccupied with "mountaneers", isolated from the evils of the world Simple, noble life, whose inhabitants, the These collections created the myth of the Appalachians as remote sanctuaries of Texan fiddler Eck Robertson, cut the first record of "old-time music". Heritage, although the world had to wait until 1922 before someone, In 1916 Cecil Sharp began publishing hundreds of folk songs from the Appalachian mountains (or, better, the Cumberland Mountains, at the border between KentuckyĪnd Tennessee), two events that sparked interest for the white musical ![]() In 1910 ethnomusicologist John Lomax published "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" (thatįollowed by two years the first known collection of cowboy songs), and ( These are excerpts from my book "A History of Popular Music") A History of Country Music A brief history of Country Music ![]()
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