It’s very much an unfolding story still.” “We’re starting to have conversations about inclusion in terms of expanding the narrative of where country music comes from. However, Olson notes that this is starting to change as researchers dig deeper into the history of the region and the genre. Today, countless Black musicians that were integral to the creation of Hillbilly Music, as well as modern country music, remain uncredited. We need to, frankly, give credit for all of them as much as we possibly can.” An Unfolding Story “It seems to me that country music is a music of many different cultures, many different people, many different places. However, with each new discovery, it becomes more and more clear that today’s country music and Hillbilly Music before it came from a diverse group of musicians. Olson notes that researchers are still unable to identify many of the people who spurred on the sharing and blending of musical traditions. People quickly assimilated other people’s sounds and they blended together.” People could appreciate the humanity in other people regardless of where they came from through their shared language which was music… Music was certainly a shared cultural experience that everyone could relate to even if certain sounds or styles might’ve seemed, at first, unusual to some people based on their backgrounds. About the power of music to bring people together, Dr. In that way, they could find common ground. Finding Common Ground in Musicīlack and white musicians of the time played together and learned from one another.
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What we certainly need to do is give full credit to all the participants in culture-making,” Dr. “They blended so long ago that we have to be careful about making too many assessments or judgments about where they came from. Cultural and musical practices started blending in the early days of North American settlement and continue to this day. Really, it is quite diverse.”īy the time the music of Appalachia became Hillbilly Music, it was hard to discern what aspects came from which culture. It came from white musicians and Black musicians, from people of different ethnicities. “It came from highland areas and lowland areas. Olson gave a brief overview of the diversity of the music’s origins. Hillbilly Music represents years of cultural exchange and combination. “One way of looking at Bristol is that it’s the situation that gave rise to a more commercial approach to recording music and packaging it in a certain way.” The Bristol Sessions, did, however, change the face of the music business. It really preceded that by many, many years and from different places,” Dr. The notion that it automatically or spontaneously emerged in Bristol is fanciful. “That music derives from many different sources, in many different places, and many different people.
In short, I couldn’t have found someone more versed in the deep history of Hillbilly Music if I tried. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching which is awarded by the Appalachian Studies Association, and the East Tennessee Historical Society’s Ramsey Award for Lifetime Achievement. Over the course of his career, he has earned seven Grammy nominations for his work in compiling and preserving historical recordings of American music. Olson is a professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University and has penned many works on Appalachian music and folklore.
Ted Olson about the Appalachian roots of country music. They did, however, allow those outside of Appalachia to discover and enjoy Hillbilly Music for the first time. The truth is, the Bristol Sessions were more akin to the Jamestown or Plymouth Rock of Country Music. As a result, those sessions are hailed as the Big Bang of Country music. The Stonemans, The Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers are, without a doubt, the best-known artists who recorded in The Bristol Sessions. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Original Carter Family – 1 August 1927.*** ()
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