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| Father of bluegrass; Bill Monroe and the bluegrass boys (Kentucky) – name of genre; mandolin player; 40s |
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| acoustic style; all sang into one microphone; virtuosic playing – flashy solos (guitar/fiddle) |
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| style of banjo playing, originally from Africa; right-hand playing technique; taught person to person |
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| western style injected into country music in 40s by Hank Williams |
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| song from minstrel shows; 1840s composed by Dan Emmett; sung in dialect |
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| the main bluegrass banjo player; NOT clawhammer style – 3 finger style named after him – Scruggs; not funny, very serious |
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| late 1800s promoted by instrument companies to sell more at higher prices; 15-20 year fad; advertised gentle and classical style playing of the banjo |
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| variety show on the radio in Nashville; made Nashville the center of country music |
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| most popular country musician ever; brought wester to country; died at 29 in the back of his car; no banjo in his music – revolutionized country; songwriter |
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| musicians; term came from marketing by record companies; taken from an earlier era (minstrel shows) |
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| character in all the minstrel shows who fell down and stumbled on his words; this character gave the name to Jim Crow Laws – legal racial segregation (similar to apartheid) |
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| popular shows in the 1800s (19th century) that parody black slave life |
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| taylor in Nashville; taylor to the stars – lavish suits |
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| American composer – Way down upon the Swanee River and Ol Susanna; made living composing for minstrel shows; most well-known American composer |
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| American fiddle and banjo player and singer from the Appalchian Mountain region; movie – Sprout Wings and Fly |
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| 1st major border radio station; selling junk medicine, but put country stars on it to attract attention (Jimmy Rogers) |
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| in 1923 he was the first commercial country recording – The Ol’ Hen She Cackled |
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| south of the Mexian border; million watt radio station |
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| American Indian Movement; post prominent in Red Power movement in 60s and 70s; raise awarness about plight of Indians |
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| ensemble from Northern Plains; large drum; many men with one drumstick each, played in unison |
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| emerged in the Great Basin (Eastern California) among Paiute; Woboka had a vision – people dance this then buffalo would come back, people would be united with their ancestors, white people would return to THEIR home, and ghost shirts would protect them and make bullets bounce off of them; example of diffusion – across north America because of the telegraph |
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| something that crosses tribal lines (ghost dance, powwow) |
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| South Dakota; largest Lakota reservation and lowest life expectancy in United States; very poor |
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| weekend long celebration – music and dance; “making relations” – increasing family and social network |
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| AABCBC (first A-solo, second A-entire group) |
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| record producer for Lakota; played in rockband (XIT); his companies name is Sounds of America |
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| Crossing of Indian Tribes; Tom Bee’s band |
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| sung solo, nonsense phrase |
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| Paiute shamen (shamen-“medicine man”); had the vision of the ghost dance |
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