Then when the early movies came, westerns were popular. In music, the [cowboy] comes along a little later in the s with Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers in the singing cowboy movies. Who were the most popular early cowboy heroes of film and radio? In the movies, it was William S. Hart and then Tom Mix. And Gene Autry was the first singing cowboy star. Why do you think Autry was so popular? He was like a breath of fresh air. One of the things he did in his movies was put the old West in the contemporary West.
People rode horses, but they also drove pick-up trucks. They chased bad guys, but they also had a telephone and a phonograph. What about cowgirls? What role did musicians such as Dale Evans and the Girls of the Golden West play in the evolution of cowboy music and culture? Were record companies and advertisers similarly involved in creating the cowboy image? The cowboy was a positive image, as opposed to the hillbilly, which was considered a negative image.
The cowboy, I think, was just more appealing. Why are cowboys and westerns still attractive to people? Country vocals are simple ballads, danceable tunes, or melancholy romance. Harmony—if present—is simple often involving only two or three voices. While county music is an offshoot of folk , there are disparities in origin, sound, and theme.
Folk music started in the eighteen hundreds. American folk songs have origins in the Revolutionary and Colonization period when settlers from the British Isles came to America. They were also introduced to their new country.
Folk music is unique to an area and universal within that community. They often played whatever instruments they had at their disposal. Folk also extends into the twentieth century when a new type evolved.
It was called the second wave of folk music or the folk revival. Folk music had its heyday in the s. Both folk and county music are rooted in stories of the working class. They are the music of blue-collar Americans. Both genres blended styles from Irish Celtic melodies and English tunes. Folk music and traditional country music sound a lot alike. Both have a repetition of simple melodies.
Both have lyrics that tell stories. Both use repetition of a catchy chorus or even a memorable phrase to engage their audiences and tempt them to sing along. Just as chords and melodies for folk and country were simple, so, too rhythms were easy to tap, clap, and play spoons too.
Easy regular rhythms encourage listeners to participate. Both folk and country instruments often included strings like a guitar, fiddle, upright bass, and mandolin. In addition, folk groups often used whatever they could find.
So, a folk group might have someone playing spoons or a washboard, or a washtub bass. While country music shares the stringed instruments of folk singers, they added steel and electric guitars, dobros, and often percussion instruments. Jewel started in country but also sings folk and pop. In essence, country is one part of folk. It is a unique style of folk music. Since the Grand Ole Opry , a Saturday night performance featuring country and western singers, has been broadcast weekly from Nashville, Tenn.
Many of the musicians have been influenced by African-American blues see jazz and gospel music , but the performers and audience are almost all white. In the s and 70s, country and western music significantly influenced the development of rock music. See B. Hemphill, The Nashville Sound ; C.
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