The Name Game
An artist who achieves mainstream success across multiple genres or music charts
What is a cross-over artist
A blending country ("hillbilly") and rhythm & blues (R&B) during the 1950s creating one of the most important popular musical genres ever
The first term to describe country music
What is Hillbilly Music
The foundation of the southern economy.
What is farming?
Playing a guitar flat horizontally, with both hands above it like it's a table. Instead of pushing strings to the frets, you hold a heavy piece of steel or other hard material in the left hand and move it around on the strings.
What is the steel guitar?
His trademark was the "blue yodel"
Who was Jimmie Rodgers?
A subgenre of country music that originated in the 1950s in Tennessee, replacing the dominance of the rough honky tonk music with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos" associated with traditional pop.
What is the Nashville sound?
Singing with frequent changes between falsetto and the normal voice.
What is the blue yodel
Not progressive
What is conservative
String Band
What is a musical ensemble that is made up primarily of acoustic string instruments used to play old time music.
Who was Patsy Cline
This music combines hippie, Texan, and cowboy. Best known artist is Willie Nelson
What is the Austin sound?
A type of, often rustic, bar or nightclub found primarily in the South and Southwest United States that provides live country music, dancing, and alcohol to its patrons.
What is Honky-tonk
Realism, sentimentality, self-pity, love, death, nostalgia, etc.
What were the basic themes that dominated early country songs
Mule Skinner
What is the song sung by Jimmie Rogers about a professional driver of a team of mules?
He revitalized the banjo.
Who was Earl Scrubbs?
Music that blends old-time string band music, blues, jazz, gospel, and Irish/Scottish folk traditions using instruments like the banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass
What is bluegrass?
A term used to replace the designation Hillbilly music
What is Old Time Music
The country sound is made up of these characteristics.
What are southern accents, acoustic string bands, and nasally singing.
Ken Maynard and Gene Autry
One of the most successful, significant, and influential country artists during the 20th century. He died in 1953
Who was Hank Williams?
A high-energy, dance-oriented subgenre of country music that emerged in the 1930s-40s, blending jazz, blues, and pop with traditional fiddle music.
What is western swing?
That what we call country music when is becomes generally popular during the 1960s by artists like Elvis Presley.
What is mainstream music?
THE most popular country singers who appealed to both country and popular music fans. Some of his most important hits were "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," and "Ring of Fire."
Who was Johnny Cash?
A Canadian female singer who exaggerated country singing style and collaborated with some of the most important and popular American country singers.
Who is k.d. lang?