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1755

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important date for acadian history. Expulsion. Louisiana turns into a French colony.

The year the Cajuns are kicked out of Acadia by the English and end up in Southwest Louisiana

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1923

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Golden Age of recording. First commercial country music. Important time for John Carson.
(Fiddlin’ John Carson)

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Acadia

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region, place, utopia, paradise. Eastern Canada settled by the French.

“Land of Abundance” where the cajuns (or acadians) came from prior to Louisiana and after France

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Akonting

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african banjo

instrument from west Africa; the cousin of the banjo

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Amédé Ardoin

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cajun singer. Father of cajun and Zydeco music. Accordion player. Black Creole. Played with Dennis McGee.

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Americanism

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philosophy that says there are main and non main stream americans. White, english-speaking and Protestant are main stream.

National spirit gone awry between the two world wars (Protestant, White, and Speak English)

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Assimilation

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want to blend in or become mainstream. Assimilation to cajun band.

Blending in (Hackberry Ramblers)

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Balfa Brothers

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Picked up accordion after WWII and blew people away. Played in Newport, RI in 1964. Not trying to assimilate.

WWII generation and a part of the cajun cultural revival

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Bill Monroe

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A mandolin player, bluegrass band. Started bluegrass

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Border radio

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XERA, Dr. John Brinkley. Selling stuff on the radio. Bathing country music. million watt, illegal

South of Mexico radio that “Dr.” John Brickley started

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Cajun

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acadian

People from France that first moved to Acadia and then the South Louisiana

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Cajun accordion

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button accordion, played by Amede

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Cajun cultural revival

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came back from WWII and didn’t want to assimilate. Discrimination doesn’t bother them.

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Chanky-chank

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term for old fashioned accordion sound. Insults.

Old fashioned country music

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Clawhammer

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banjo technique. Can’t learn by watching, must learn by teaching

technique for right handed banjo players

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Clifton Chenier

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blues style music with accordion. King of Zydeco music. Brother plays the vest (frattoir)

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Country & Western

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Country music and Western style, Hank Williams. Nashville

type of music that Hank Williams started

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Creole

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french speaking people in Louisiana, not cajun. Black creoles. Vibrant culture. Creole musicians are innovative

type of heritage traced to Europe and Africa (rich and innovative)

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Dan Emmett

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Minstrel show performer/composer. Banjo player. Would dress up as black people to put on a show

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Dennis McGee

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played with Amede, fiddle player. Lived into 90s. Created cajun music “Dixie”

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Dixie

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song written by Dan Emmett. Music version of Confederate flag. Making fun of black people. In minstrel shows

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“Dr.” John Brinkle

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Border radio. Invented surgical procedures that people didn’t need. Sold medicine that people didn’t need, usually alcohol. XERA radio

A quack doctor who set up XERA in Mexico and made country music available in America

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Earl Scruggs

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banjo player and bluegrass musician

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“Elevation” of the banjo

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marketing technique. Trying to sell to rich women

the 19th century after the decline of minstrel shows when instrument manufacturers sold banjos to the rich and made them small enough for women to hold

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Fiddlin’ John Carson
1923 recorded to first country hit, "the hen she crackled", in 1923
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Folk revival
1950s-60s. young musicians turing to roots, guitars, singing folk songs 1960s educated people are turning away and playing at the New Port Folk Festival
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Frattoir
defining percussion instrument of Zydeco music metal vest
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Golden age of Radio
1930s!!! get you to do things. put country music on the air.
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Golden age of Recording
1920s
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Grand Ole Opry
Nashville radio show. Have to keep it “strictly clean and decent”. Family show. Longest running radio show A weekly radio station that became the center of country music for Nashville
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Hackberry Ramblers
cajun band. Music became anglicized. No more accordions, string instruments became popular a 1930s/40s cajun band that wanted to sound more like Texas, so they got rid of the accordion
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Hank Williams
lived short life, 29 years, in back of Cadillac. Songs went right to people’s hearts The greatest country music artist who pulled country and western together
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Hillbilly
stereotype of rural white Southerners promoted by record companies in 1920s. (same elements used in minstrel shows) stereotype of poor, white, rural, southerners that came about by the recording industry during the 1920's and helped them sell records
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Honky Tonk
contained guitar, bass, electric steel guitar and fiddle. Simple, straight to heart. (Hank Williams country music style) beer joints, road side bars
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Jim Crow
character in minstrel shows. Racial laws after civil war black in the minstrel shows w/ oversized shoes who gave his name to segregation laws (Jim Crow Laws)
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Les haricots sont pas sal
song sung by Clifton Chenier. Zydeco music. Has frattoir in the background. “The beans don’t have any salt” genre of music
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Mail order
made Chicago/ Sears wealthy. Put WLS on air. Accordions were spread by this.
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Minstrel shows/Minstrelsy
Norther white performers dressed in blackfaces and act out black slave life. Band was huge 1840s-70s northern white Americans putting on shows about black slave life before the Civil War (banjo was the center of the show)
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Nashville
country music USA. Hosted Grand Old Opry the winner of 3 cities competing to be the country music industry ( a highly polished Nashville sound)
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Nashville Sound
1950s-60s. string sections, orchestral back-up. recording was more important that artists. make money from recordings Rich tearful vocals, smooth strings, backup singers, meticulously-produced arrangements, this is the sound that made postwar Nashville a wealthy empire. (Patsy Cline)
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Newport Folk Festival
1964, Newport, RI. Expression of folk revival. (Balfa Brothers) and institution for the folk revival in 1964 in Rhode Island where Balfa Brothers played and 17000 listened
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Nova Scotia
“New Scottland” Acadia——-> Nova Scotia. Eastern Canada. New Scotland, new name for Acadia, in Canada
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Nudie
tailer that moved to Nashville and made a suit for Hank Williams
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Petit fer (‘tit fer)
steel triangle. essential percussion instrument of cajun music.
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Piano accordion
has full piano keyboard, played by Zydeco musicians. (Clifton Chenier) preferred instrument of creole accordion players
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Scruggs
Earl. Bluegrass music a new three-finger "up-picking" approach to the 5-string banjo
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Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
WLS, mail order. biggest mail order catalogue (Chicago, WLS)
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Southwest Louisiana
heal of Louisiana boot. Cajuns thrived here. region to the west of New Orleans where Cajuns settled
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Stephen Foster
American Composer. Made living composing minstrel shows. the most well known composer of the 19th Century ("Oh Suzana")
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Strictly Clean and Decent
Motto of Grand Ole Opry. Has to keep it clean because it’s a family show. No swearing, sex, drugs or violence. Play country music. Listened by rural Americans. secret to it's success
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Texas style Cajun
played by Hackberry Ramblers, no accordion, no assimilation. musicians who got rid of the accordion and brought in the guitar so it would sound like Texas
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WLS
Commercial station put on by Sears. “World’s Largest Store” try to attract country market. Competition is coming from Nashville.
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WWII generation Cajun
Balfa Brothers. Revitalized cajun music. No assimilation. Balfa Brothers and other veterans who picked up Cajun style and owned it
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XERA
Mexico radio station. Border radio. Illegal radio. Quack medicine. a radio station near the South of Texas-Mexican border where country music was played and quack medicine was sold (Dr. John Carson)
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Zydeco
music of Clifton Chenier. named after vegetable. genre of music with the accordion driven music of creoles of SW Louisiana
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Bluegrass music
All acoustic music with only one microphone and very choreographed that was named after Kentucky

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