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2 days ago · Kentucky - Music, Cuisine, Art: The lifestyles of many Kentuckians are slower-paced, more rural, and more Southern in their orientation than are those of their counterparts north of the Ohio River. The eastern Mountain region in particular evokes images of “hillbillies” (rural mountain dwellers), moonshiners, and log cabins of a bygone era. Local communities in the region celebrate this ...
5 days ago · His new EP, Detour to the Moon, includes seemingly through-composed, instrumental new acoustic music a la Punch Brothers alongside more straightforward original banjo tunes and a Kid Cudi cover that may just be the best bluegrass cover of a non-bluegrass hit in recent memory. Watching the excited recognition of “Pursuit of Happiness” ripple through the audience at a bluegrass festival ...
2 days ago · The soundtrack, produced by T Bone Burnett, features bluegrass and traditional country music. This music played a significant role in the film’s success, highlighting genres like folk, gospel, blues, and prison chants. The film’s soundtrack brought bluegrass music into the mainstream, creating a newfound appreciation for old-time music.
3 days ago · Hillbilly is a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks. As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression, the term spread northward and westward with them. The usage of the term hillbilly as a descriptor receives mixed perceptions, often in part ...
1 day ago · Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal.The origins of music remain highly contentious; commentators often relate it to the origin of language, with much disagreement surrounding whether music arose before, after or simultaneously with language.
4 days ago · James Monroe is the son of Bluegrass music icon Bill Monroe. In this interview, he recalls memories of his father as both a parent and a Bluegrass legend. He talks about touring with his father, his father's bands and their members, and what he learned from his father and other musicians over the years.
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2 days ago · The New Harvard Dictionary of Music states that swing is: "An intangible rhythmic momentum in jazz...Swing defies analysis; claims to its presence may inspire arguments." The dictionary does nonetheless provide the useful description of triple subdivisions of the beat contrasted with duple subdivisions: [105] swing superimposes six subdivisions of the beat over a basic pulse structure or four ...
