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Both Kinds of Music

Musical combination of country fiddle music, blues, boogie-woogie, and swing ... Honky-tonk is usually what is refered to as

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Both Kinds of Music

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    Slide 1:Both Kinds of Music

    Early Country and Western

    Slide 2:Early Country and Western

    Outgrowth of hillbilly music Themes of sentimentallity, morality, and patriotism

    Slide 3:Roy Acuff (1903-1992)

    The most popular hillbilly singer of the swing era Two songs most closely associated with him are: Great Speckled Bird (about the Christian church) The Wabash Cannon Ball (about a train)

    Slide 4:Great Speckled Bird

    Sometimes regarded as the National Anthem of Country Music Acuffs first hit record Cross-over hit: #13 on the pop charts in 1938 Religious lyrics are in the tradition of the Carter familys gospel derived style

    Slide 5:Great Speckled Bird

    Strophic, in the tradition of Anglo-American ballad singing Features a Dobro - six string guitar with a metal plate resonator on the front (new) Bottleneck guitar

    Slide 6:Great Speckled Bird

    What a beautiful thought I am thinking Concerning a Great Speckled Bird Remember her name is recorded On the pages of Gods holy word With all the other birds flocking round her She is so despised by the squad The Great Speckled Bird is the Bible Representing the great Church of God When He cometh descending from Heaven On the clouds as he wrties in His Word Ill be joyfully carried to meet Him On the wings of that Great Speckled Bird

    Slide 7:Gene Autry (1907-1998)

    The Singing Cowboy Hillbilly singer turned Hollywood western star Less accent, more crooner than Acuff Important role in developing the western side of country and western Do not confuse him with Gene Austin- early crooner

    Slide 8:Western Swing

    Musical combination of country fiddle music, blues, boogie-woogie, and swing Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: Big band swing with a western twang Western lyrics !

    Slide 9:The Texas Playboys

    Contained: Southern string band (fiddle, banjo, 3 guitars, including electric steel guitar) Big band (piano, string bass, drums, two trumpets, six saxophones) Listen to New San Antonio Rose !

    Slide 10:Postwar era

    Three types of country & western in the postwar era: Country crooner (Eddy Arnold) Bluegrass (Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs) Honky-tonk (Ernest Tubb, Hank Tompson, and Hank Williams Sr.) !

    Slide 11:Bluegrass

    Neotraditionalist, back to roots Short, choppy chords Essentially instrumental music at its core, very virtuosic Bill Monroe Its Mighty Dark to Travel !

    Slide 12:Honky-tonk

    Hard country, beer-drinking music Term comes from honky-tonking, slang for bar hopping Themes of family instability unpredictability of male-female relationships, attraction to and dangers of alcohol, importance of enjoying the present Honky-tonk images is one of the rough-neck Honky-tonk is usually what is refered to as Good old country music

    Slide 13:Honky-tonk style

    High-lonesome style of singing (very different from country crooners low mellow voices) Cracks in the voice reflect emotion Blue notes and melismas

    Slide 14:The Wild Side of Life

    Hank Thompson Theme is modeled on Great Speckled Bird This song is answered by Kitty Wells in Honky-tonk Angels, a famous answer record that is also modeled on Great Speckled Bird SKIP

    Slide 15:Honky-tonk style

    Adapted to rowdy environment Amplified guitars Percussive, insistent beat Well-suited for dancing

    Slide 16:Hank Williams,Sr. (1923-1953)

    Precursor to rockabilly style Combines tradition elements (such as fiddle) with innovations (steel guitar) Im so lonesome I could cry Hey Good Lookin [whats ya got cookin?]. Tin Pan Alley AABA form Teen-friendly cross-over hit

    Slide 17:Classic blues

    W. C. Handy Cornet (trumpet) voice Reed organ Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith A A B C abab Form: combines TPA and 12-bar blues 12-bar blues St. Louis Blues Who? Song? Sound Who? Form?

    Slide 18:Country Blues

    Robert Johnson Charley Patton Blind Lemon Jefferson Crossroad Blues Tom Rushen Blues That Black Snake Moan Complex rhythmic Chords, fee meter Simpler, more Metric chords Few chords, more Melodic, very free. Bottleneck Guitar & voice Rural south, poor, black Delta Texas Roots? Sound?

    Slide 19:Country Blues

    Robert Johnson Charley Patton Blind Lemon Jefferson Crossroad Blues Tom Rushen Blues That Black Snake Moan Complex rhythmic Chords, fee meter Simpler, more Metric chords Few chords, more Melodic, very free. Bottleneck Guitar & voice Rural south, poor, black Delta Texas Roots? Sound?

    Slide 20:Country Music after WWII

    Styles? People? Songs? Style?

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