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Question of the Week : Week One; Where you live = what you listen to?
Topic Started: Oct 4 2008, 03:09 PM (38 Views)
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The United States is a vast acreage of diversity. The music of different regions of the county is as diverse as it's people. Here is an article discussing the Mountain Music of North Carolina .UESTI There are so many other examples .
1. Where do you come from and what music from your region has influenced your musical tastes.?
2.Why do you think a particular type of music is indigenous to that area of the country?




From The Sunday Times
September 7, 2008

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/music_and_travel/article4681606.ece

The mountain music of North Carolina
On a serendipitous journey into the Appalachians, Stephen Bleach finds the sound of old America - plus more world music

Stephen Bleach
This can’t be for real. They must be making a film. I can hear the director’s conversation now: “Hello, central casting? I want some good ol’ Southern boys for my movie. Yep, the more clichéd, the better - dungarees, caps, accents as thick as molasses, eating peanuts and playing banjos.”

It’s real, all right. I’m in the barbershop in Drexel, North Carolina, where twice a week a bunch of guys straight off the set of Deliverance gather to make the most enthralling noise you’ve ever heard.

No entrance charge, no posters, no playlist - they don’t do it for a film director, or indeed for tourists (though anyone’s welcome to drop in). They do this for themselves, and that’s the joy of it.

Some call the sound they make “bluegrass”, some “old time”, some “mountain music”: whatever the name, it’s an anomaly in a nation dominated by slick superstars and corporate marketing. It’s home-grown, it’s small-scale, and it’s thriving at hundreds of jams, dances and gatherings like this, up and down the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia.

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Music was always an important part of life for the Pennsylvania Germans
and it is has a very special place in their heritage. Some of this music
originated in Germany and came over with the German immigrants in the 18th
and early 19" centuries, but much of it was created as they settled in
America. All of the music represents a unique expression of a wonderful
culture that is German in background but is strongly influenced by a
pioneering American experience," ...

Much of the musical lyrics is inspired by religious edict or stories passed down from family to family.
The accordian was a big instrument when I was growing up........... I really thought it was great

Music ranges from folk singing and country fiddling to the sounds of brass bands; one band of note is called the Sauerkraut Band which produces what is known as the oom-pah sound. Some songs are sung acapella ;especially by the Mennonite people who shun most musical instruments .

Hoe-downs with square dancing were Friday night staples in our region.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPyhyYPgoFI A Hoedown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_ty1yFUNg Amish children singing

Simple tunes sung by " simple" *people marked the Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. Of course, not being "simple" I loved my rock and roll and jitterbugged with the best of em. American Bandstand originated in Philadelphia and I did attend one session in the 50's with a gal who use to live there and moved to our school district.



* simple is a term applied to members of the Amish, Mennonites, Brethern persuasions.
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