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23 Cards in this Set
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Amede Ardoin |
created the Cajun according sound |
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Balfa Brothers |
Cajun band, no longer felt embarrassed of culture, WW2 Vets, stars of Newport Folk Festival |
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Banjo |
historically diffused across all borders (race, class, geography, gender), came from West Africa |
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Bill Monroe |
Father of bluegrass music (Kentucky), played mandolin specifically*, banjo, fiddle, string base |
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Carter Family |
Family of country music, started on border radio, 1st national country stars |
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Clifton Chenier |
1st zydeco star, creole according player |
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Creole |
People already in Louisiana (France/W. Africa), living parallel to Cajuns |
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Dan Emmett |
minstrel show performer, wrote “Dixie”, played banjo |
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Dennis McGee |
played with Amede Ardoin, together they put Cajun music on map |
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“Dr” John Brinkley |
sold insane medical practices over borer radio in Mexico |
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Eral Scruggs |
bluegrass banjo player, very serious guy |
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Fiddlin John Carlson |
made the 1st commercial country hit |
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Hackberry Ramblers |
Cajun musicians who tried to be like the Texans, example of music assimilation |
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Hank Williams |
put country & western music together, hillbilly & cowboy, (died in Cadillac) |
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Hillbilly |
stereotype of real life people, developed by record industry in 1920’s
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Jim Crow |
Character in minstrel shows, turned into the segregation laws |
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Minstrel shows |
included playing of banjo by European Americans, elements of hillbilly stereotype originated in |
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Surggs |
Eral surggs nickname |
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Stephen Foster |
most well known music composer of the 1800’s (19th Century), wrote music for minstrel shows |
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influential early Cajun duo |
Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee |
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Performer with oversized shoes, goofy speech and dim-witted manner |
could be a hillbilly recording artist, a minstrel actor, or a stereotype
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understanding history of country music |
can help us understand marketing forces, evolving technology, and changing society |
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Giant radio transmitters of the 1920’s |
broadcasted from Mexico, featured country music, were unregulated, and featured “quack” medical advertisements |
