History
What style of music evolved from mountain music?
Bluegrass
This type of music often prioritizes storytelling over complex instrumentation.
What is Folk Music?
This type of music focuses on religious messages and is commonly used in worship settings.
What is Gospel Music?
This European immigrant group contributed fiddle traditions that influenced bluegrass.
What are the Scots-Irish?
When folklore is presented publicly to influence society and power structures, it can be used for this broader goal.
What is social and political change?
This decade saw the development of bluegrass as a modern form of string band music.
What are the 1940s?
These songs are known for storytelling and were passed down through oral tradition, making them easy to memorize.
What are Ballads?
Increased popularity from festivals helped bluegrass gain more access to this media platform.
What is Radio?
This promoter organized the first three-day bluegrass festival in 1965.
Who is Carlton Haney?
In the 1920s, record companies separated music into “hillbilly” and this category aimed at Black audiences.
What are Race Records?
Because they were rarely written down, the music often exists in many versions due to this method of transmission.
What are Oral Traditions?
This string instrument is played with fingerpicking and has roots in African traditions.
What is the banjo?
The construction of this system in the mid-20th century helped increase tourism to bluegrass festivals.
What are the interstates (or highway system)?
This folklorist believed that mass media could be used to give “the folk” a stronger public voice through recordings and performance.
Who is Alan Lomax?
This term describes the belief that folk traditions were being weakened or destroyed by modern commercial forces.
What is Cultural Erosion?
When was the first known use of the term “mountain music”
1933
This style of singing, where a leader’s line is answered by a group, is a key feature of African American gospel traditions.
What is call and response?
This major religious revival helped shape early gospel traditions in America.
What is the Great Awakening?
This musician is often debated as the first country artist to perform his own recordings on the radio.
Who is Eck Robertson?
This perspective suggests that folklore and folklife can be used as tools for democratic, social, and economic change.
What is a political view of folklore (or folklife as political expression)?
This early 20th-century term was used by the recording industry to market country music to white audiences.
What is HillBilly?
This concept refers to how Appalachian folk music reflects a shared sense of place and culture.
What is Regional Identity
This publication regularly reported on early bluegrass festivals, mixing critic-style analysis with fan excitement.
What is Bluegrass Unlimited?
This folklorist analyzed festivals to better understand cultural conflict within the bluegrass movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Who is Roger D. Abrahams?
In Appalachian communities, mountain music often served this role, reinforcing shared values, identity, and collective belonging
What is social identity formation?