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| expulsion out of Canada. Gumbo culture with lots of different culture |
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| first “country” commercial recording |
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| 1602 cajun people chased their heritage to France to E. Canada to Southwest Louisiana. Now known as Nova Scotia |
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| black cajun player, 1920s into 30s |
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| mainstream american, white, angle pore (english speaking), protestant |
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| effort to become mainstream. cajun was an insult |
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| appeared at New Port Festival in 1964, huge success |
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| played the mandolin, bluegrass boys, late 1940s |
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| selling things on the radio |
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| southwest louisiana, trace their heritage to Acadia |
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| button accordion, became available through mail order, mass produced puff instrument, very strong |
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| revival of pride, post ww2, of the returning soldiers |
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| originated in France and Canada, drone and melody style, would play with two fiddles |
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| trio of family musicians, became national stars. |
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| guitarist, she’s really responsible for country guitarists |
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| right hand technique, original style from Africa, someone has to teach you. |
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| mid 20th century pian accordion, incorporated blues into the accordion. |
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| 1930s-40s combo in western clothing with country music in nashville |
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| french and african heritage in Southwest Louisiana |
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| minstrel show performer, composer of Dixie |
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| tried to sale his medicines on the radio, got attention by playing country music |
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| blue grass player, decidedly not a hillbilly, his sound became a necessity of blue grass. created his own playing style in contrast to claw hammer style, he used finger picks |
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| 1890s banjo manufacturers were expanding their markets to women |
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| from atlanta, created first country music recording “Old hen cackled” |
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| post ww2 young, northern, college educated musicians embracing older southern styles |
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| percussion instrument in zydeco |
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| 1930s-notion of great depression, notion of border radio, grand ole opry |
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| weekly radio show (running since 1930s), Nashville variety show, “Strictly clean and decent”, conservative, rural audience |
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| possibly the greatest country singer, combined country and western style, guy who died at 30, people try to imitate his performances, lifestyle, and writing style, |
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| stereotype of southern rural white performers-taken from minstrel shows, cultivated by record company for a marketing image |
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| beer joint where young musicians play, hank williams was the beginning of this |
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| black man character in minstrel sows, stock character (well-known) |
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| les haircots sont pas sail |
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| title of a song, “beans dont have no salt” |
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| catalogs selling instruments through the mail, especially sears |
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| popular entertainment through civil war and a little after, comic/nostalgic parodies, main band instrument: banjo |
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| city that grew up around country music, country music capitol, created a radio show and all performers, producers, tailors, and lawyers moved down there |
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| growing recording industry; the recording was the most important thing, involved a lot of back up singers |
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| 1964, Balfa brothers played and became stars put cajun music on the map |
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| new scotland, what was formerly Acadia (since 1755) |
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| hungarian immigrant tailor in nashville, created costumes |
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| triangle, zydeco musicians prefer, played by clifton cheneir |
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| worlds largest store had a radio station (WLS) to compete with country music radio stations. |
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| geographic region, home of the cajuns |
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| 19th century Motzart, songwriter and composer fro minstrel shows |
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| strictly cleana nd decent |
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| assimilation style hackberry ramblers |
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| cajun musicians who returned and embraced their heritage, took on the accordion, spoke french |
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| radio station, million watt, put on by Dr. Brinkley, got everyone exposed to country music |
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| accordion driven music of South West Louisiana |
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