MUSI 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carter Family, Folk Music, Leuciscus
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What"s hillbilly music: music that is performed and marketed for southern whites, rural undertones. What are some of the european influences in hillbilly music: ballads, dances, fiddling, vaudeville troupes, traveling caravans. How does hillbilly show the influence of race in structuring the music market: radio is controlled by the white. Rural undertones, performed and marketed for southern whites. Influences: vaudeville troupes, traveling caravans (doctors, yodelers, hawaiian guitars, folk immigrant european sources: ballads, dances, fiddling. Venues : barn / church daces, town squares: radio (not phonograph) main medium. Scouts now look for white immigrant audience. Common conditions in cities: the winding stream (history of the carter family) Carter: collected and copyrighted all material: hymns, old ballads, tin pan alley early hits. Quiet, religiously permeated conservative feel: rural past evocation. Gospel ship , 1935: plain, strophic performance (british, irish protestant religious culture, johnny cash. Quintessential rambler: celebrates recklessness and unsettled life: hobos, gamblers, convicts, cowboys, railway men.
