The History of Country Music Part 1

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The History of Country Music Part 1 Instruments and Early History

For those that don’t know Country music is a genre American popular music. Term to know: Genre – a category that identifies pieces of music (but also film and literature) to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

The setup Immigrants and their traditions and musical instruments go back nearly 300 years ago. When coming to America, immigrants brought with them their most valued possessions, which in many cases were instruments.

Instruments

Accordion

Accordion Reed instrument developed in early 19th century Europe Worn like a vest Consists of left and right hand keyboard that are connected by bellows

Autoharp Gained prominence during the 1920s in country music. Played by strumming strings.

Banjo

Banjo Strummed or plucked. Descended from West African lutes Slave trade brought the banjo to Africa Most recognizable music in country music

Bass

Bass Provides rhythmic “bottom” for melody. Upright favored by bluegrass and rockabilly bands. Electric base is used in contemporary music.

Dobro

Dobro Precursor to steel guitar. Invented Dopyera brothers in 1920s and modeled after the Hawaiin “slack” or resonator guitar. Played face up. Music picks strings and slides a metal bar across the frets

Drums

Drums Not part of the original instrument lineup in country music Were introduced officially to country music in the 1950s with the advent of rock and roll.

Fiddle

Fiddle Brought to America from British Isles. Has always been a fixture to country music. Has been in America for nearly three centuries.

Guitar

Guitar Evolved in Europe from a lute- It was refined in America into two major styles: the flat-top, perfected by 1850 by C. F. Martin of Nazareth, Pennsylvania; and the “arched-top” (with a top carved in the manner of a violin), invented by Orville Gibson of Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the 1890s.

Guitar Prior to the 1920s the guitar had been a refined parlor instrument that was overshadowed in American popular music by (chronologically) the lute, minstrel banjo, mandolin and tenor banjo.

Harmonica

Harmonica Developed in Europe during the 1820s. Popularity grew because of the ease in which it could be packed. Used in blues

Mandolin

Mandolin Derived from ancient lute of Renaissance Italy. Composers such as Handel and Mozart. Bill Monroe became the first country virtuoso of the Mandolin

Piano

Piano Integral in the inception of country music. Made famous by Jerry Lee Lewis

Pedal Steel Guitar Developed by Alvino Rey, a pop steel guitarist and leader of a big band and machinist John Moore in 1939 The first country musician to take the instrument seriously was Speedy West - an obscure, California-based steel player who approached patternmaker Paul Bigsby

Pedal Steel Guitar Steel guitar has since then become a staple in country music

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