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- Originating in the 19th century, cowboy music developed from the convergence of various musical traditions brought by settlers and cowboys in the American West. It drew from the folk ballads of the British Isles, African American blues, Spanish influences, and Native American music.
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Dec 4, 2010 · A close examination of a collection of cowboy songs recorded more than 100 years ago shows that, despite the popular image of the American West, cowboys were a multiracial, multiethnic...
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Oct 2, 2008 · When sound films arrived in the late 1920s, the singing cowboy became a staple hero of Westerns. Ken Maynard, a rodeo cowboy and veteran of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, started in silent films, but came into his own in the talkies as the screen's first singing cowboy.
Apr 28, 2024 · Distinctly “Western” songs began to emerge in the mid-19th century, reflecting the Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma region’s unique mix of peoples of Anglo, Celtic, Spanish, and Other European; African; Native; and Central American heritage.
Jul 30, 2013 · The cowboy was elevated from a lowly laborer to a knight of the plains, though his services were concurrently being truncated by the introduction of barbed wire. Nascent folksong collectors realized that the “passing of the cowboy” meant the loss of a historic record.
Numerous songs and ballads were made up and sung along the way to pass the time. The author is unknown for most of these historic lyrics, and many versions often existed. What keeps the herd from running, Stampeding far and wide? The cowboy’s long, low whistle, And singing by their side.
Oct 29, 2023 · Take a look back at the top 15 cowboy songs. From cattle drives to cowboy hats, you're sure to find your favorite.
More than 200 cowboy songs have survived. Many of the tunes are borrowed. Enough of them seem genuine to claim a place for cowboy songs as a unique ballad product of the American southwest. Jack Thorpe of New Mexico published locally a small pamphlet collection of cowboy songs without music in 1907.
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