a gorde with a goat skin, long neck, strings, has a drone string that is played with thumb
instrument: madaline (tiny guitar) father of blue grass music 1950's rock and roll
The banjo is the center of bluegrass music The banjo is often called Americas instrument Progression versus nastalgina (looking back at the good old days)
"Dr." John Brinkley XERA DelRay TX million watts He was a "doctor" who broadcasted on the radio ads for his surgeries, people often died from his surgeries. He got people to listen to his radio station by hiring country musicians to play on his station.
First family of country musicians, worked for XERA radio, the Carter Family had a warm presence on the radio and sang about things people could relate tho, this it the beginning of nationalizing country music.
banjo technique from Africa
Composed the song Dixie, black faced banjo player in minstrel show, song represntitive of the old outh
I wish I was in the land of cotton... ensemble only recording with a taboreen (playing the back beat) banjo percussion (bones) flute re-creation of a minstrel era performance composed by Dan Emmett musical equivalent of the olde confederate flag
Large Northern Plains style playing, men all around 1 drum, each with 1 stick all playing together, various techniques, dancers coordinated with the DRUMMING instead of the singers
3-finger style, not clawhammer (from africa) very fast and bright sounding, became know as the Scruggs style banjo which is key to bluegrass music
Elevation of the Banjo
the instrument appealing to the upper class and women, fades by 1910, new left in the hands of white southerners
originated in the 1870's among the Piaute Indians who live in the Great Basin. If you make a ghost shirt and the shaman prayed over you, you will be invisible and the bullets will pass right threw you, this idea spread to the Lakota
Grand Ole Opry
strictly clean and decent (family values), radio variety show, made Nashville center for music universe
Took on Texas style, was born in Montgomery Alabama, got his singing training in church, in his teens he performed on street corners for money. He was a hard core alcoholic bay a teen, addicted to painkillers in his 20's. No one would hire him by his late 20's and he died in his car on his way to a gig in Ohio
Hillbilly Stereotype and relationship to minstrel shows
a stereotype to promote a certain type of entertainment a marketing term that was invented by the marketing company in the 1920's to sell country music
Jump Jim Crow
This is the minstrel tune that gave its name to the segregation laws of the southern states following the Civil War. “Jim Crow” was a stock character in the minstrel shows, a bumbling, comic, simple-minded black man with exaggerated features, rolling eyes, and comic threadbare clothing. A racist image that continues to reverberate in American culture.
Minstrelsy (minstrel shows)
Northern, white, entertainers (way banjo was spread) 2 forms: 1) stories about how nice it is to be a slave in the south fishing 2) humiliating stories, creating comical characters
things that happen in most tribes
Social events (weekend long) about making relatives (networking and reconnecting)
arbor (performance areas campsites
Terroced Melodic Contour
melody starting high and going low and then starting high again and going low...
Pan-tribal: “Beginning.” XIT (Crossing of Indian Tribes) is a rock band from Albaquerque NM an activist/musician. As a teenager Tom Bee undertook a search of his roots and became involved in the Red Power Movement. He now runs a native record company SOUND OF AMERICA, dedicated to producing and distributing Native American popular music.
gathering of 3,000 Indians over 300 women and children were massacured by the army
shaman has a vision that is called the ghost dance, it says if only my people danced and sang in the right way with energy, the white people will elave
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