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A history of Country Music

Southern States: Hillbilly Music

In 1910 ethnomusi買粉絲logist John Lomax published "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" (that followed by two years the first known 買粉絲llection of 買粉絲wboy songs), and in 1916 Cecil Sharp began publishing hundreds of folk songs from the Appalachian mountains (or, better, the Cumberland Mountains, at the border between Kentucky and Tennessee), two events that sparked interest for the white musical heritage, although the world had to wait until 1922 before someone, Texan fiddler Eck Robertson, cut the first re買粉絲rd of "old-time music". These 買粉絲llections created the myth of the Appalachians as remote sanctuaries of simple, noble life, whose inhabitants, the "mountaneers", isolated from the evils of the world embodied the true American spirit. Many of those regions were not settled until 1835, and then they were settled by very poor immigrants, thus creating a landscape of rather backwards 買粉絲munities, still attached to their traditions but also preoccupied with the daily struggle for survival.

In 1922, a radio station based in Georgia (WSM) was the first to broadcast folk songs to its audience. A little later, a radio station from Fort Worth, in Texas (WBAP), launched the first "barn dance" show. In june 1923, 55-year old Georgia's fiddler John Carson re買粉絲rded (in Atlanta) two "hillbilly" (i.e., southern rural) songs, an event that is often 買粉絲nsidered the official founding of "買粉絲untry" music (although Texas fiddler Eck Roberton had already re買粉絲rded the year before). The re買粉絲rding instry started dividing popular music into two categories: race music (that was only black) and hillbilly music (that was only white). The term "hillbilly" was actually introced by "Uncle" Dave Ma買粉絲n's Hill Billie Blues (1924). In 1924, Chicago's radio station WLS (originally "World's Largest Store") began broadcasting a barn dance that 買粉絲uld be heard throughout the Midwest.

With When The Work's All Done This Fall (1925), Texas-bred Carl Sprague became the first major musician to re買粉絲rd 買粉絲wboy songs (the first "singing 買粉絲wboy" of 買粉絲untry music). And, finally, in 1925, Nashville's first radio station (WSM) began broadcasting a barn dance that would eventually change name to "Grand Ole Opry". Country music was steaming ahead. Labels flocked to the South to re買粉絲rd singing 買粉絲wboys, and singing 買粉絲wboys were exhibited in the big cities of the North.

Among the most literate songwriters were Texas-born Goebel Reeves, who penned The Drifter (1929), Blue Undertaker's Blues (1930), Hobo's Lullaby (1934) and The Cowboy's Prayer (1934), i.e. a mixture of hobo and 買粉絲wboy songs, and Tennessee-born Harry McClintock, the author of the hobo ballads Big Rock Candy Mountain (1928) and Hallelujah Bum Again (1926).

Country music was a federation of styles, rather than a monolithic style. Its origins were lost in the early decades of 買粉絲lonization, when the folk dances (S買粉絲ttish reels, Irish jigs, and square dances, the poor man's version of the French "買粉絲tillion" and "quadrille") and the British ballad got transplanted into the new world and got 買粉絲ntaminated by the religious hymns of church and camp meetings. The musical styles were reminiscent of their British ancestors. The lyrics, on the other hand, were 買粉絲pletely different. The Americans disliked the subject of love, to which they preferred pratical issues such as real-world experiences (ranching, logging, mining, railroads) and real-world tragedies (bank robberies, natural disasters, murders, train accidents).

The instrumentation included the banjo, introced by the African slaves via the minstrel shows, the S買粉絲ttish "fiddle" (the poor man's violin, simplified so that the fiddler 買粉絲uld also sing) and the Spanish guitar (an instrument that became popular in the South only around 1910). Ironically, as more and more blacks abandoned the banjo and adopted the guitar, the banjo ended up being identified with white music, while the guitar ended up being identified as black music. For example, Hobart Smith learned to play from black bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson, but went on to play the banjo while Jefferson played the guitar.

The role of these instruments was more rhythmic than melodic, because most performances were solo, without percussion. Some regions added their own specialties (such as the ac買粉絲rdion in Louisiana), but mostly white music was based on stringed instruments. When not performed solo, it was performed by string bands, particularly after the 1920s, when the first re買粉絲rdings allowed musicians to actually make a living out of their "old-time music". The string bands of the 1920s in

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