WebBluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Like mainstream country music, it largely developed out of old-time string music, though in contrast, bluegrass is traditionally played exclusively …

WebName Yrs Locale Notes Early Folk and Classical Music Festivals 1800s–1920s Worldwide A number of festivals for classical music and folk music in the late 1800s and early 1900s periodically featured electronic instruments and electroacoustic improvisation, though they were not necessarily a regular feature.Some of these festivals included Leeds Festival …

WebFolk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.Some types of folk music may be called world music.Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on …

WebLe bluegrass est un genre musical, ayant émergé aux États-Unis, qui constitue une branche de la musique country.Son fondateur, Bill Monroe, originaire de la communauté de Rosine (dans la région du Bluegrass, au Kentucky), entreprend dès les années 1940 de codifier et d'adapter aux publics modernes l'old-time music qui puise sa source dans les …

WebThe American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Billie Holiday, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, John Jacob Niles, Susan Reed, Paul Robeson, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Cisco …

WebThe Bluegrass region is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Kentucky.It makes up the central and northern part of the state, roughly bounded by the cities of Frankfort, Paris, Richmond and Stanford. The Bluegrass region is characterized by underlying fossiliferous limestone, dolomite, and shale of the Ordovician geological age. Hills are generally …

WebIncidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others; Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others; Occasional music: military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions

WebThe territory bands of the 1920s and 30s brought a new style of music to Oklahoma. Many of the well-known swing musicians tuned their skills and styles touring with these regional bands. These bands brought the big-band orchestras to many communities never visited by the more popular groups from New York. Perhaps the most famous of the Oklahoma …

WebPopular music of the United States in the 1960s became innately tied up into causes, opposing certain ideas, influenced by the sexual revolution, feminism, Black Power and environmentalism. This trend took place in a tumultuous period of massive public, unrest in the United States which consisted of the Cold War, Vietnam War, and Civil Rights …

WebSheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.Like its analogs – printed books or pamphlets in English, Arabic, or other languages – the medium of sheet music typically is paper (or, in earlier centuries, papyrus or parchment).