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| Played Mandolin- acoustic, virtuoso player, “churchy” harmonies, fast solos, high “tenor” singer, made up of mandolin, banjo, guitar, fiddle, bass, choreography around a single microphone. “blue grass genre” (Bill Monroe and the bluegrass boys) |
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| “keep on the sunny side” maybelle, sarah, a.p. carter |
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| banjo technique from Africa, learned by minstrel performers |
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| composed by Dan Emmett-minstrel banjo player |
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| banjo player- 3 finger style of playing-fast, inventive, loud, driving. “scruggs style” banjo playing |
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| 1880-1900 beautifully decorated instruments, method books, concert hall, performances, competitions. Sponsored by instrument companies |
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| “strictly clean and decent” started incorporating cowboy music out of nashville-became center of country music |
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| C star 1922-1953-deceptively simple-young alcoholic, died on new years eve on his way to a gig |
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| southern, illiterate, alcoholic, mindless, foolish, ill-fitting clothes etc. |
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| minstrel character-segregation laws named from him. |
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| main taylor from nashville- made C stars cowboy suits |
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| fiddle and banjo player- Mt. Airy, N.C.–highway worker, moonshiner, fiddle in smithsonian last |
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| ***Analogy Used in Movie** |
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| tommy’s sister talked about old sticky table clothes |
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| first country music recording-1923 |
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| broadcasted from mexico-pirate radio- selling junk. Jimmy rodgers was a musician played on there. |
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| AIM-American Inian Movement |
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| organization that became the reps of red-power movement |
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| (a drum) large northern plains style of music making, everyone has single drum stick around huge drum |
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| originated with the Payo people in death valley-diffused through north america-came from a vision by wokboka(shaman)-involved praying and discipline-if done right, ther lives would be perfect(buffalo, no more white man, invincible) |
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| practice rituals performed by other tribes(ghost dance) |
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| large lakota reservation in south dakota. lowest life expectancy of any community in north america. |
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| weekend long celebration about socializing- music and dance are essential |
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| melodic contour(shape of melody) starts high and then descends and then starts high again(not as high) then descends-Lakota songs have specific-AABCBC |
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| native american rock musician and record producer-XIT |
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| Payu medicine man who had vision for ghost dance |
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| american composer(old susana) made a living writing for minstrel |
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| African prototype of the banjo |
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| mid 19th century traveling shows that portrayed racist stereotype. |
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| site of massacre that ended the “indian wars” people gathered together to do ghost dance |
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| band stands for crossing of indian tribes-was tom Bee’s Band |
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