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Roy Acuff and his Crazy Tennesseeans
Acuff good baseball player (yankees camp) was forced to quit by sunstroke. took up fathers fiddle. toured w a doctor. radio stations in knoxville 1933. 1st recording in 1936. 1938, joined grand old opry, first top star. RJ Reynolds tobacco company enocuraged by Acuff sponsored “The Prince Albert Show” 1/2 hour of the grand old opry on NBC. Formed Acuff Rose publications along with Fred Rose. one of country musics first publishing firms. helped establish Nashville Tenn as center of country music. one of country musics biggest stars, only one not from the southwest, didnt pose cowboy image. |
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By Roy Acuff
uses Dobro: steel guitar invented in the 1930s w a resonating disc.
uses string bass
Acuff sincere singing style
written by Rev Guy SMith expanded by Acuff
melody comes from song by the carter family. |
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Father of Western Swing
b. 1905 in west Texas
8-yr stay in Tulsa established his sound drawing him to the swing bands of the southwest. |
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Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
also recorded by Bing Crosby in 1941 |
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reached peak during the Depression, dance hall music combined cowboy ballads, hillbilly music and jazz with touches of mexican and cajun.
fiddle, guitar, steel guitar, banjo, drums amd swing bass. |
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| split up with Charlie Monroe, joined band that premiered the Opry in 1939. |
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| Bill MOnroe’s band. known as the best bluegrass band ever to perform. |
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elita mary and ella hoffpauir
cajuns,”acadians”
recorded by lomax 1934 |
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| call and response, usually no instruments. think sept ans sur mer |
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Dennis Mcgee and Sady Courville
1929
bad timbre |
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La Valse des reids
twin fiddle style,
born in louisiana, to halfd indian mother. songs from the acadians. blueprints of the past |
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| replaced by the accordion and guitar |
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| amede ardion and dennis mcgee |
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| creole accordion player. famous. supposedly killed by white mob after receiving white womans hanky. power lines, triple ornaments. |
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| african american french speaker |
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| creole music. just like cajun music. |
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| j’ai vu le loup, le renard, et la belette |
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the balfa brothers
“i saw the wolf the fox..”
conerstone of folk revival. probably lampoons royal figures. |
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Dewey balfa, cajun fiddler (revival of ’60s)
Newport Music Festival!!
“a culture is preserved one generation at a time” |
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| ballad tradition of the border, voice of abused mexican americans |
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| the ballad of gregorio cortez |
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performed by maya and cantu.
corrido of them all. “with his pistol in his hand” |
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| lydia Mendoza, found it on a chewing gum rapper. 12 string guitar |
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| First recording star of tex mex music. Discovered by ralph peer of OKEH records 1928, The border lady or something |
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| OKEH records, discovered lydia mendoza |
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Narciso Martinez,
shows fast accordion technique and addition to polka |
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| “el Huaracane del valle” father of tex mex conjunto. 12 string w the accordion. Bluebird recods, same as lydia martinez. |
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| Flaco jimenez, homage to texas town. |
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dons of conjunto,
DOn santiago, Pioneer (added bass)
Leonardo, son took fathers nickname el flaco. film chulas fronteras. |
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| EVA YBARRA, mastery of the accordion |
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| 1st stage of conjunto: no style |
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| 2nd style of conjunto: to take regional flower. instruments such as bajo sexto, |
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| 3rd stage: instruments become standardized. button accordion. electric bass, drums, bajo sexto. |
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| 4th stage: pace of innovation slows. |
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| year grammaphone was invented |
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| year lomax documents cajun |
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| pueblo indians, first melody on sheet music. 1905 |
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| seneca womens shuffle dance |
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| iroquous, showed women respect |
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| a beautiful life. cherokee |
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| developed 1st native american aphabet, leader of cherokee |
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| blackfeet prairie chicken dance |
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| plains indians, tipi houses. |
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| throat song of native american arctic. make the other laugh. |
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| sung by men, thought women would become infertile |
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| eagle island blues, athabaskan love song |
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| bill stevens. gwich fiddler. from fur traders |
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| what was the problem of studying native american music |
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| couldnt record before 1900s |
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| a case for you. confessional lyric style. |
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| confessional lyric style. |
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| joni mitchell, talking to second person in song |
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| pop and punk. “shy” tought folk was an “attitude” |
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| ani defrancos record label |
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| thought folk music was type of music |
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| from poland. horns reeds bass lines tuba |
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| from poland. horns reeds bass lines tuba |
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| hardanger fiddle, nyckelharpa, fiddle, guitar |
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| native american song collector |
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| native american song collector |
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