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21 Cards in this Set
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Elevation of the Banjo |
after the minstrel shows, new buyers (rich white women), (motivated by marketing) |
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Folk revival |
Period where young Americans were looking for their roots |
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Cajun |
comes from Acadia, people from Canada/France (Canada on test) |
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Cajun Accordion |
small accordion, not like the piano accordion, bought in mail order |
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Cajun cultural revival |
Cajuns no longer felt ashamed of their culture, after WW2 |
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Cajun twin fiddling |
style of fiddle playing, 1 violin w/2 strings, 2 violins total |
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Nashville sound- example |
patsy cline |
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Texas style Cajun |
Hackberry Ramblers, no accordion (trying to assimilate) |
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WW2 generation Cajun |
folk revival, people like the Balfa Brothers |
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1755 |
year the French were exiled from Acadia |
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1923 |
first commercial country music hit was recorded |
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1920’s |
Golden Age of recording |
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1930’s |
Golden age of radio |
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1964 |
New port folk festival, folk revival of Cajun music (Rohde Island) |
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Acadia |
means paradise, now called Nova Scotia, place in Canada where French settled, (people evicted in mid 1700’s) |
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Bluegrass |
another name for Kentucky |
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Chicago |
city that connected with Nashville to become county music capital |
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Grand Ol’ Opry |
country music variety show in Nashville, center of country music |
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Nashville |
center of country music because of Grand Ol’ Opry in 1930, (smooth production and professional studio musicians) |
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Nova Scotia |
“New Scotland”, new name for Acadia |
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South West Louisiana |
Cajun country, west of New Orleans all the way to Texas |
