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| | American folk music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | American folk music is a broad category of music including country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Tejano and Cajun and Native American music. | | | Roots musical forms reached their most expressive and varied forms in the first two to three decades of the 20th century. | | | American roots music was the subject of a documentary series on PBS in 2001. |
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| | American Music: Subject Guides: MIT Libraries |
| | A bibliography of nineteenth-century American piano music, with locationsources and composer biography-index. | | | Women in American music: a bibliography of music and literature. | | | American vocal chamber music, 1945-1980: an annotated bibliography. |
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| | PBS - American Roots Music : Into the Classroom - Historical Background |
| | The continuing popularity of roots music throughout the course of the 20th and into the 21st centuries is testimony to its appeal and vitality as a set of musical genres that speak to - and of - the human condition, through very different historical periods. | | | Freedom has been a key theme in American roots music, both in terms of the ideas expressed by the music and the uses to which music is often put within social change movements. | | | While the "roots" have been lifted from their geographic and cultural bases, roots music continues to give voice to an ever-increasing spectrum of Americans, who use music as a means of reflecting on and, in many cases still, promoting social change. |
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http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_itc_historical_background.html
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| | DVD Verdict Review - American Roots Music |
| | The music of the Cajun culture of southwest Louisiana, its black interpretation (zydeco), Tex-Mex or tejano music of southern Texas, and the evolution of Native American music are all presented. | | | American roots music is a collective name for the various music genres such as country, blues, gospel, folk, bluegrass, Cajun, zydeco, tejano, and Native American. | | | The history of American Roots Music is presented in a four part series that utilizes music clips and interviews with both original and contemporary artists, music scholars, and entrepreneurs. |
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http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/americanrootsmusic.php
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| | Roots of Rhythm |
| | American roots music includes the sounds of our musical heritage. | | | Musicians listened to the music and blended the sounds into new styles. | | | The oral tradition that folk music was a century ago changed after World War I. Americans took their music with them as they migrated to cities and radio stations broadcasted it to ever increasing audiences. |
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| | A Traditional Music Library of folk music, tune-books, songbooks and sheet music |
| | A traditional music and folk music archive of songbooks, tune-books, sheet music, reference, and educational materials. | | | They are most often folk songs, country dance or similar types of folk music but they can also be pieces from known early composers and may have been the "pop music " of their time. | | | Traditional music (or public domain) is also used as a copyright status covering music which is out of copyright. |
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| | American Roots Music - A Review |
| | It’s shot-through with the wonderful music that has built the foundation for all American music, from rock to pop to country. | | | While each emigrant brought his or her own songs to Plymouth and Jamestown, it wasn’t until the music began to intermingle that it became a uniquely American music. | | | During the twentieth century scholars and musicians began to recognize the distinct heritage of American music while the phonograph, radio, and TV made regional music available to everyone. |
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| | Home - Encyclopedia of Native Music |
| | This musical companion to the `Encyclopedia Of Native Music' book is the most comprehensive overview of Native Music ever assembled! | | | EMI Music Canada will also be donating part of the proceeds from sales of this project to the 'Native Music Research Institute'. | | | It is impossible to create a definitive collection of Native music that includes all areas and genres and that spans decades and a continent. |
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http://www.encyclopediaofnativemusic.com
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| | Caroline Horn - selected articles - American Roots Music |
| | American music is a record of our history. | | | There are also some wonderful videos that explore this music, including High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music, which features legend Bill Monroe; Down From The Mountain, a documentary about the musicians in O, Brother; and American Roots Music, a riveting four-episode PBS series that includes historical and contemporary footage of twentieth-century musical pioneers. | | | By mid-century, our sense of "folk music" had broadened and nine distinct musical styles—folk, blues, bluegrass, country, Cajun and zydeco (the respective styles of Louisiana's Cajun and Creole communities), Tejano (the music of Mexican Americans in Texas), Native American, and gospel—came together to make up what we now call American roots music. |
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| | Discover Bluegrass discoverbluegrass.com |
| | Listen to a genre that is often described as a "musician's music," open your ears to the high lonesome sound and you'll hear unparalleled virtuosity, improvisation, ground breaking techniques and the unmistakable originality that characterizes the bluegrass artist. | | | The natural acoustic sound, searing vocals and tight multi-part harmony are qualities that burn one of the most creative and unique styles of American music into your heart. | | | These are all a part of the force that brings this legendary music to life. |
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| | American Roots Music |
| | The first recorded music is given a large section, with historic recording snippets of country, blues, and the beginnings of the Grand Ole Opry on radio with highlights of Jimmie Rodgers and the early recordings of the Carter family. | | | Episode Four concentrates on the emergence of Native American music, Cajun music of Louisiana and its origins, Tex-Mex music and also raps up the current state of American Roots Music movement and its different elements as it has evolved. | | | Country and folk music roots and blue grass are explored with segments on Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs. |
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| | African American Music Collection: the interviews |
| | Johnny wasn't 2, but he would listen to that music all the time. | | | And then the music that the so-called jazz critics and disc jockeys were probably giving at the time for jazz to me was some music that I liked or that I could relate to at all, which turned out to assume that they call the avant guard or "free jazz". | | | And I can't remember the music, but I know we did a date and we were paid for it, but I don't ever remember this music being released. |
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| | Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music From Back Roads To Big City |
| | Their music reflected the diverse population of the Southwest -- with German polkas, and waltzes, Spanish guitar and violins, and bits of blues and jazz from the black sharecroppers that they had worked beside in the fields. | | | The banjo and fiddle were the primary voices of early American roots music; the guitar was a plaything of the rich and elite. | | | Their songs, and the image of a family band playing wholesome music, have influenced countless of younger musicians who still play their repertoire. |
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| | American Roots Publishing: Board Of Directors |
| | The demand for music from the characters Macy and Thorne in Europe lead to a recording contract with a record label in Amsterdam. | | | Strang was one of the youngest lawyers in town and had always been a huge music fan; spending much of his free time in the great live music rooms in Vancouver. | | | Tom Frouge began his music business career as a disc jockey at WPKN in Bridgeport, CT, where he later also served as music director for eight years. |
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| | Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine: Romancing The Folk: Public Memory And American Roots Music. . - Biography & History - ... |
| | For the first time and on a wide scale, music was recorded on sophisticated equipment and valued not just for its lyrics but for the music. | | | Filene also redefines "roots music" as "musical genres that, whether themselves commercial or not, have been glorified as the `pure' sources out of which the twentieth century's commercial popular music was created." | | | The book's subtitle, Public Memory and American Roots Music, addresses the subtle creation of what Filene calls a national "public memory." Here, he carefully explores the process by which certain songs and performers enter the canon of American folk music while others are excluded or experience only temporary inclusion. |
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| | Latin American music and dance |
| | Rhumba is an American term for various Cuban song and dance genres--for example, the son or BOLERO, which are not actually rumbas but were popular dance music styles in the United States during the 1930s and '40s. | | | African musical features commonly retained include call and response singing, polyrhythms, extensive use of persistently repeated musical figures, and improvisation based on recurring short phrases. | | | It is found in both folk music, using accordion, double-headed tambora drum, and metal guayo scraper, and in various popular orchestral formats. |
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| | American Roots Music Education |
| | American roots music is music that developed in the United States and includes styles such as bluegrass, jazz, Tejano, blues, folk and Native American music. | | | These types of music are usually not well covered in school textbooks, discussed at any length in classrooms, or available to the community in public, family-oriented venues, yet the music is important to all Americans since it reflects our diversity as a society and our cultural history. | | | American Roots Music Education is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation formed in 2004. |
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| | ABC News: American Roots Music Documentary |
| | Blackwell says even people who are not fans of blues or country music should tune in to "hear and see the roots of the music we listen to every day on the radio and to learn how pure music used to be." | | | The task of documenting roots music spanned four years, as Brown researched 175 archival sources and interviewed performers including Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and Pete Seeger who talk about their own musical heroes. | | | The fresh talent came from cowboys, hillbillys, jazz musicians and gospel singers who were creating new forms of American music. |
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| | eBay - american roots music, CDs, DVD items on eBay.com |
| | AMERICAN ROOTS Folk Music 4 CD - 100 SONGS! | | | Roots Music -An American Journey 4 CD Set | | | Folk Classics: Roots Of American Folk Music - Variou... |
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| | various / american roots music, american roots music |
| | VARIOUS / AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC - American Roots Music | | | ‘American Roots Music’ traces the development of American music genres during the 20th Century, from the award-winning production team of Jim Brown and Sam Pollard. | | | The DVD is broken up into four distinct periods of music history: • Part One: The emergence of American roots music from its European, African, Mexican and Native American origins. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: American Roots Music [BOOK] |
| | To unite the "uniquely American genres of folk music such as blues, gospel, country, Western swing, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano and Native American" under the designation of roots music and to attempt to explore such a diverse category sufficiently is to invite charges of folly or hubris or both. | | | Great music from Jon Cleary Bonnie's great keyboardist | | | Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Blues |
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| | Roots & Rhythm - Thousands of roots music CDs on line |
| | Over the years we have had the good fortune to be able to use the services of a number of music writers and many of the recordings we offer come with reviews. | | | We want to sell you music but if we think a title is no good we'll tell you so. | | | Roots and Rhythm - Thousands of roots music CDs on line |
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| | Metroactive Music American Roots Music |
| | Now we'll see if America really was cozying up to the old-timey music of O Brother (the soundtrack of which sold more than 2 million copies), or if it was just George Clooney's comedic parody as one of the fabled Soggy Bottom Boys that won their hearts. | | | The four-CD set (a single disc of highlights also is available) showcases eight uniquely American musical forms. | | | America's love affair with roots music is heating up. |
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| | Maria Muldaur |
| | In 1992, she recorded an album that paid tribute to the rich musical traditions of New Orleans. | | | Both albums are delightful gems with a number of great musical artists. | | | "Maria Muldaur has been called one of the best singers of American roots music and her performance at this year's Festival will be a unique acoustic homage to the great blues pioneers of the '20s and '30s. |
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| | American Roots Music |
| | Karaoke To The Music Of The Sound Of Music And Mary Poppins | | | These are the "roots" of American popular music - blues, country, gospel, folk, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, tejano and Native American. | | | John Adams - A Portrait And Concert Of American Music |
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| | American Roots Music [DVD] |
| | Each 1-hour episode features seminal historic footage and musical performances by the pioneers of American music and traces the cultural evolution that shaped and influenced our rich tapestry of music. | | | It is an incredible education in not only popular American music and culture, but history, and should be required viewing and listening in high schools. | | | The PBS American Roots Music series - both the 4 part documentary on DVD and 4 CD boxed set - is a commendable work. |
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| | NPR Weekend Edition Saturday: T Bone Burnett |
| | Burnett's work on these albums is proof that music need not be glossy and over-produced to appeal to a wide audience. | | | The vocals are rich but not simple and the music is no less than pure joy. | | | The music he makes and the artists he brings together are harmonious reminders for those us who've long forgotten the "grass" of our "roots." |
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| | Moviefone: American Roots Music [Video Series] Movie |
| | The song will be featured on the trio's forthcoming album '#1's, which will consist of three new songs along with all of the group's biggest hits. | | | For 24 hours, AOL Music is the only place to see the exclusive worldwide video premiere of 'Stand Up for Love,' from Destiny's Child. | | | American Roots Music [Video Series] movie trailer, showtimes,... |
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| | Cross the New York County Line for American Roots Music |
| | The Americana music showcase is the brainchild of Coppersonic, a New York based band whose sound is steeped in this blend of traditional music. | | | The idea for New York County came about when the band recognized the lack of events that specifically emphasized this rising trend in music. | | | (PRWEB) August 21, 2004 -- The American roots music showcase New York County comes to The Baggot Inn on Saturday, September 18, at 7pm and will feature performances by some of the city’s most prolific roots rock musicians. |
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| | World Music |
| | Director Simon Broughton interviews a cross-section of musicians in his film, Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan : creators of folk, religious, pop, and film music tell their stories, some passionately, others with a sense of shell-shocked acceptance.... | | | As a young girl in Canada, Ahluwalia was exposed to various types of Indian music, but found herself drawn to ghazals in particular. | | | Rather than relying on showboating, however, Danças Ocultas are virtuosos of economy and silence, each of their parts carefully woven together to create musical landscapes that are both comfortably familiar and wholly unique... |
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| | ROOTS OF AMERICAN FIDDLE MUSIC |
| | These pioneer recording artists helped lay the musical foundation for all genres of country music that followed including bluegrass, western swing and country western music. | | | operation, and just in case anyone wondered how it relates to old time music, cider making is very much a tradition with most rural communities and songs and tunes about drinking cider(hard that is) are very common. | | | music by providing interesting historical information, clear MP3 recordings and rare photos of early fiddlers, string bands and other oldtime performers from the 1920's. |
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| | Berkeley: Clarinetist takes world's music, makes it her own |
| | Custer traces her catholic musical tastes to her childhood, when she soaked up Motown on the radio and listened to her father play classical pieces on the piano in the evening. | | | Her music has a humanity and human scale that's very satisfying. | | | "Her music has that soulful quality, a real human voice to it," says Goode, who often discusses basic ideas with Custer, and then starts choreographing to the sketches she brings back. |
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| | Folk Music - Bluegrass Music - Alt Country - Americana Music - Roots Rock - MilesofMusic.com |
| | But then, there are many things (all good) heard within their music, little of which reflects their cited influences of The... | | | Folk Music - Bluegrass Music - Alt Country - Americana Music - Roots Rock - MilesofMusic.com | | | Elements familiar to his music can still be heard here – the “Spector” Sound, Memphis Soul, Brill Building, Orchestral pop &; yet his ability to root out an intelligent idea... |
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| | Friends of American Roots Music |
| | 3rd COAST MUSIC is the essential newspaper for Americana and American Roots music. | | | Founded in 1990, Diesel Only Records is Brooklyn's home of "Rig Rock." Dedicated to truckin' music and the preservation of the vinyl single, the label has released dozens of diesel-fueled 45s and three critically-acclaimed "Rig Rock" compilations that are distributed to jukebox operators from coast-to-coast. | | | Carolina Music Ways - Carolina Music Ways Music Heritage Resource Group is a grassroots organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the diverse music traditions of North Carolina's Northwest Piedmont. |
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| | [FM] American Roots Music |
| | I guess the > most interesting things about American Roots Music for me is the way the music > has been passed down, absorbed, and rejuvenated. | | | "American Roots Music" - new book (David Broida) > > Dear F_M List Folks, > > American Roots Music - a new oversized book with great photos, tells the story > of folk, blues, country, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, Native American, et > al, in a straight-forward journalistic style. | | | The way a song can bring tears to your eyes - the small > stories here - they can do the same. |
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| | American Roots Music - Palm Pictures |
| | The chronology of early 20th Century American roots music innovations. | | | Complete track listing of the entire four-volume American Roots Music box set along with album credits. | | | Palm Pictures is proud to announce that on October 30th, a 4-CD box set, single disc "Best Of" and DVD/VHS box sets entitled "AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC" will be released as the companion pieces to a television documentary of the same name. |
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| | American roots music Portland |
| | Indian music, Pakistani music, Bangladesh, Nepalese music, Sri Lankan music (Ceylon) | | | south american Salsa music, Cumbia music, and Vallenato music | | | global electronica, new age music, and meditation music cds |
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| | American Routes: radio show from New Orleans |
| | American Routes visits the flashy zydeco accordion man Nathan Williams; Shreveport, Louisiana, singer Dale Hawkins tells stories of his early rockabilly hit "Suzy Q"; and jazz pianist/songstress Nellie Lutcher talks about growing up in southwest Louisiana, then playing music in the other LA - Los Angeles. | | | Stay tuned for new programming that will include the music and voices of musicians displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, including Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and others, as well as some encore classics. | | | Routes in the NY Times (9/7/05) -- This Song Goes Out to You, Big Easy |
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| | Roots of American Music |
| | A handsomely illustrated tribute to the dance music of Loiuisiana's black Creole community. | | | Published in conjunction with a four-part PBS special it's a wide-ranging and informative reference for fans of folk music in all its forms. | | | In the Country of Country, A Journey to the Roots of American Music |
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| | angrycoffee.com feature: american roots music |
| | They are meant to illustrate the rich diversity of American roots music, and to inspire further listening and digging. | | | American Roots Music, the box set, is a first cousin to American Roots Music, the 4-part PBS documentary series and the American Roots Music companion book. | | | Together they add up to a comprehensive look at this country's roots music tradition, amassing in one collection many of the seminal songs and artists from the blues, country, gospel, folk, bluegrass, Cajun, tejano, zydeco and Native American catalogues. |
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| | Country Roots Music |
| | This is the stuff our music is made from... | | | Unlike so many sites that spring up, then waste away, Country Roots Music will be updated regularly, because it is operated by the same music fanatics that have updated Central Texas Country (formerly Austin Americana) every single week since its inception during the last century! | | | our suggestions for the site and thoughts on music are welcome. |
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| | American Roots Music- Folk, Bluegrass |
| | We follow our hypothetical roots music fan-Guy- as he puts together a system for recording and watching his favorite live music on state of the art Digital Video... | | | The idea of buying your music as a download is revving up- with the major download sellers inking agreements with all the major labels and many of the indies..... | | | Fiddlin' Around brings together all the resources you need to turn your computer into the ultimate roots music jukebox: MP3, Internet Radio, Web streams and archives, reviews of all the new music download services, music hardware and software reviews, and interviews with Americana, folk, and bluegrass artists |
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| | Sundance Spotlights American Roots Music |
| | Each half-hour segment will focus on a different aspect of the movement, beginning with religion, and touching on acoustic music, independent labels and finally, performance. | | | The four-part series "Keeping Time: New Music from America's Roots" will premiere Aug. 7. | | | By Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y. August will find the Sundance Channel spotlighting the artists and labels leading the new wave of American roots music. |
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| | Last Fair Deal - New American Roots Music |
| | After working on independent music projects, the members of New England-based Last Fair Deal are bringing their unique brand of acoustic synergy back to fans old and new. | | | The band features Paul Howard on vocals and guitar; Tom Hagymasi on vocals, fiddle, and bouzouki; Phil Zimmerman on vocals, mandolin, and banjo; and Todd Howard on vocals and five-string bass. | | | Book LFD now to be a part of their 2005-2006 CD release tour. |
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| | Index of Native American Music Resources on the Internet |
| | Native American music recordings from Life Now Books and Sound, Canada | | | Get music at your fingertips from the Apple Store. | | | Indian House, specializing in traditional American Indian music. |
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