music

Dennis McGee

Cajun fiddler from Louisiana Played with amede ardoin Played in cajun style before accordion accompanied cajun music

The Carter Family

"First family of country music." A traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.

Fiddlin' John Carson

(1868-1949) Musician from Georgia who made the first commercially successful hillbilly record

Ralph Peer

(1892-1960) Missouri-born talent scout for Okeh Records; worked as an assistant on Mamie Smith's first recording sessions and was the first to use the catchphrase "race music." Discovered the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers at a recording

Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin

- accordion player - Cousin of Amede - Played with canray fontenot - Genre: zydeco

Robert Johnson

A Delta(DH) blues man who supposedly sold his soul to the Devil for his musical abilities. Not a commercial success in his lifetime, but rediscovered in the 1960s after his death, and would become one of the most well-respected early blues musicians of the 20th century.

Ballad

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas Popular in britain and british aisles

Olive Dame Campbell

American Collecting in S. Appalachia English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917). Used recording device first to do field work

Francis Childs

American-born Harvard professor and Shakespeare specialist. Obsessed with British ballads, esp. those predating printing (ca. 1475) 1857-58: English and Scottish Ballads collected text only

Jimmie Rodgers

Father of Country Music; combined country, blues and yodeling. The subjects of songs will set the standard for future of country music. Developments beyond "old-time" and "hillbilly" music: Early country

Cecil Sharp

Founding father of folklore revival in england, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them. Asked people from villages to sing/dance. British-born collector/scholar of American music Worked with dame campbell Work more ethnographic: info on singers, when/where collected, mode/scale. Sharp ideological: forge British national culture Collect music of whites only; racialist agenda Collect mostly from women

Amede Ardoin

French-speaking black musician to make 78 rpm recordings in the 1930s Popularized accordion

Leonard Chess

Launched label that was hub of blues music scene PRODUCER WITH MUDDY Introduced whites audiences to blakc artists like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry Owned chess records Signed blues, r&b and rock and roll artists

multimusicality

Musicality is a set of "inner skills" that enhances ability to play and understand music. Playing by ear Singing in tune Jamming Having good rhythm Writing music Writing notation Improvising a solo Talking music Understanding Music Theory Clapping in time Knowing your instrument inside and out Tuning your instrument by ear Reading notation Sight-reading music Playing from a lead sheet Performing live Playing multiple instruments

Lester Melrose

Producer with muddy one of the first American producers of urban Chicago blues records and played a critical role Found talent for race music market

Alan Lomax

Prolific musicologist and song collector; preserved much of the early Blues music; helped musicians expand careers Interested in singers/musicians as part of living culture Rigid criteria about authenticity(leading to cult of authenticity) Concerned with issues of musical style, not just text and music Use of recording equipment in field work Field locations: (ppt 2) Prisons Former plantations Ranches Lumber camps American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934)

John Lomax

Recorded and preserved folk and cowboy music with his 1910 collection , "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads." professor of English, mentored by Child proteges first to postulate indigeneous(!) American folk tradition Seeks out living practitioners

Blind Lemon Jefferson

The first recording star of the country blues father of Texas blues solo and self-accompanied songwriter Sang "matchbox blues"

songster

Tradition that began before blues music but defined blues singers Africna Ameircna blue singers were called songsters instead of blues musicians one that is skilled in song.

agency

an individual's active role in shaping their situation

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

appeared at the Newport Folk Festival with Dylan

Danny Poullard (& California Cajun Orch.)

creole musician but identified with cajun music favored the 'Cajun' i.e. white style of accordion playing (or at least non-zydeco). didn't want to play zydeco it was about identity for him and not race A part of internal revival Cultural bridging between 'insider' (Creole Catholic parishes) and 'outsider' (white, non-Cajun revivalists)

Johann Gottfried Herder

father of modern nationalism

Clifton Chenier

first "King of Zydeco". Won title by winning an accordion contest.

Huddie Ledbetter ("Leadbelly") was "discovered" by American folk-musicologist Bob Seeger.

folk and rural blues singer Lead Belly spent his share of time in Southern prisons. Convicted on charges of murder (1917) and attempted murder (1930), Lead Belly literally sang his way to freedom, receiving pardons from the governors of Texas and Louisiana. The second of his releases was largely obtained through the intervention of John and Alan Lomax, who first heard Lead Belly at Angola State Prison while recording indigenous Southern musicians for the Library of Congress. Lead Belly subsequently moved to New York, where he worked as a chauffeur (for John Lomax) and occasional performer. During the last fifteen years of his life, he found an appreciative new audience in the leftist folk community, befriending the likes of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Much like Guthrie, he performed for political rallies and labor unions in his later years. His keening, high-pitched vocals and powerful, percussive guitar playing commanded attention, and he became known as "the King of the Twelve-String Guitar." Lead Belly recorded for a variety of labels, including Folkways, and performed tirelessly, though still subsisting in relative poverty, until his death in 1949 of Lou Gehrig's disease.

affinity

fondness; liking; similarity which certain genres and styles had

Mediation

intermediate stage between artistic production and the audience

Vernacular

ordinary, everyday music such as popular and folk music. It is defined partly in terms of its accessibility, standing in contrast to classical western music that is structured and elite.

blue notes

slightly different pitch than standard. roots in Afro-American music with the slaves and became being really used in Blues, receiving the name of "Blues scale" this note does not belong to natural scale

folk

traditional, rural; the opposite of "popular"