discovering “lost” [English] folk music in America. Within the first two weeks of his fieldwork in Tennessee and Kentucky, he had recorded almost one hundred folk songs. He was delighted to find that these people were so similar to the English. However, Sharp and Karpeles later discovered that there was a difference between the English and the Americans, and this was that music for the Appalachian people was just an everyday occurrence. There were no planned performances. Music was just something everyone
African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of music and musical genres largely developed by African Americans that set a stage for a variety of artist. Blues, pop, ragtime, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, soul, funk, disco, and hip-hop constitute the principal modern genres of music today. All elements and genres of music help create a performer's style and musical characteristics by allowing them to develop and mix all types of music together, seeing
written about a culture within state boundaries, and he doesn’t blame it on a scandal or lack of imagination and interest from scholars, rather he ties it to a problem with adapting a cultural perspective when observing Tennessee’s or any other state’s history. Then Conkin brings about his main point of his essay, which is focused
The vast influence of Southern culture is so evident and diverse that it can be observed all around the world. From literature, to music, or from sports, to fashion, southern identity has established and shaped itself within a huge range of aspects in life. Some of the world’s most prominent companies got their start in the Dixieland, and many of the most influential people in the world are products of the South. This raises a question: What makes one region’s way of life cause such a broad influence