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Country Mus ic 101
Splash 2012Emily Pries
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Class Basics If you don't want to be here, no problemo!
You are allowed to dislike country music
Please be kind! (Cell phones away, limit sideconversations,
etc.)
Use the restroom, get water, etc. whenever
Raise your hand and ask questions at any point
Class runs from 9:05AM 9:55AM
If you get the itchin'...start twitchin'!
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Agenda Introduction
Country Roots The Birth of the Banjo
Rise to Popularity Why the Carter Family is a lot like Ke$ha
Thematic Elements She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
Modern Manifestation Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood
Gangnam
Style
Your Happily Ever After
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In t roduct ion
I am: From Massachusetts/New Hampshire A teacher in New York
City A Math and Statistics major at Columbia University
NOTa Phd in Historical Analysis of Country Music A huge country
fan!
This class: Includes history, pictures, videos, lots of
music
(as much live music as possible) Is 50 minutes long Will
hopefully foster an appreciation of country music Might make you
cringe at the sound of a banjo Is a spring board for a lifetime
love
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Country Roots
Traditional European Folk Dance +American Slave Culture -->
Country Music
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Country Roots From Africa
Traditionally madeusing a gourd
Both a percussion andstring instrument
Joel Walker Sweeney Born 1810
Relationship with fiddle
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Country Roots
Dock Boggs (1898 - 1971)
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Country Roots
Hawaiian movement toward steel guitar
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Country Roots
Written and oral tradition
Performance Minstrels and Comedy
Phonograph Invented by Thomas Edison in 1877
Audion - triode vacuum tube Invented by Lee De Forest in 1906
Electronic valve used to amplify electrical signals
Transistor-based devices arrive 1950s
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Rise to Popular i ty
WSM out of Nashville 1925
The Grand Ole Opry
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Rise to Popular i ty
Carter Family
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Rise to Popular i ty
Cowboy Country Music
Homestead Culture
Urban Cowboy Prohibition
Intersection w/ rock & roll Elvis Presley
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Rise to Popular i ty
Johnny Cash
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Thematic Elements
Poverty Dust bowl, Great Depression
Manual Labor Railroad expansion, farm work, homesteads
Drinking End of prohibition honky-tonk era War and Peace Civil
war, draft, hippies, military culture
Small town lifestyle Christianity, idea of home
Love, especially broken hearts Blues roots
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Thematic Elements This is Country Music- Brad Paisley
You're not supposed to say the word cancer in a song And tellin'
folks Jesus is the answer Can rub 'em wrong It ain't hip to sing
about tractors, trucks Little towns and mama Yeah that might be
true But this is country music and we do
Well, you like to drink a cold one On the weekend and get a
little loud
Do you wanna say I'm sorry or I love ya But you don't know how?
Do you wish somebody had the nerve To tell that stupid boss of
yours To shove it next time he yells at you? Well, this is country
music, and we do
So turn it on, turn it up and sing along This is real, this is
your life in a song Yeah this is country music
Are you haunted by the echo of your mother On the phone?
Cryin' as she tells you that Your brother is not coming home?
And if there's anyone that still Has pride and the memory of those
That died defending
the old red, white and blue This is country music and we do
So turn it on, turn it up and sing along This is real, this is
your life in a song Just like a road that takes you home Yeah this
is right where you belong This is country music, This is country
music
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Thematic Elements
Post folk era Progessing tradition
Kenny Chesney
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Modern Manifestat ion
Toby Keith 2001 - America goes to war
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Modern Manifestat ion
Dixie Chicks 2003 scandal with President Bush
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Modern Manifestat ion
Country meets pop
Taylor Swift
Brad PaisleyCarrie Underwood
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Modern Manifestat ion
Right now in country:
CMA Album of the Year 2012: Eric Church Chief
Jason Aldean My Kinda Party Hip-hop element on Dirt Road
Anthem
Miranda Lambert/Blake Shelton
CMA New Artist of the Year: Hunter Hayes
Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines
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Your Happ i ly Ever A fter
How to find new country: Billboard country chart (also available
for any year) CMA Award winners and nominees Taylor Swift effect -
pop singers with country roots
Youtube related links Find country music loving friends
Spotify links
Stay in touch! Email me at [email protected] to
get/share country music recommendations
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
