Appalachian Mountain Music Documentary
Appalachian Mountain Music Documentary
Here is a short documentary of Appalachian mountain music! Stay tuned for more updates for roc-tv next semester!
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Videographer: Glenn Hall
Editor: Glenn Hall
A big thank you to Geoff White, Josh…
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Im an Irishman i love themusic and culture of Appalachia i can really here a lot or Irish influence in the music the ballad singing is like Sean Ós singing the boot dancing very similar.
I hope to be over this year ro try up skill my Banjo playing
I’m a guy from the British isles & now living in the American South.
I’d be lying if I said the music was part of why the South, but I consider it a huge bonus.
I don't have a banjo yet…but when acquire one it's game over
There is, in fact string instruments throughout west Africa, even today, that are played with a bow or stick ranging from 1 to 8 or so. The fiddle sound is not unique to Scotland or Ireland. Rice is not exclusive to China, and the entire known world beyond Western Europe will argue that the Chinese and Japanese are infinitely better pasta makers than Italians.
Interesting. Absolutely no African Interviewees in this segment. What exactly is the Mountain Music “sound”
Without a black influence. It is incredibly peculiar that these Irish immigrants were inspired by “Delta” blues music, at a time when they likely didn’t travel much, and weren’t traveling to the Delta to jam with enslaved Africans toiling under a rigorous work schedule, instead of the legions of black musicians already located in the Southern Appalachia.
My ancestors are early appalachian settlers that built banjos and dulcimers. They played old folk songs and wrote plenty also. They have songs stored at the Smithsonian. However we are NOT Irish. Our first ancestors came into York virginia in 1716 after fighting as a rebel in the battle of Preston in 1715 the last battle on English soil🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Frank Proffitts music is amazing he did his best to keep the old songs going
Youre an immigrant. The natives were here first
Thank you forward the information 😊
Is it normal for them to pronounce Appalachian like they
BLACK AMERICANS STARTED COUNTRY MUSIC' THE BANJO AND THE FIDLE WERE AFRICAM INSTRUMENTS;WHY BLACKS LEFE COUNTRY MUSIC' BECAUSE WHITES STARTED TO TAKE LAND FROM FROM BLACKS THEY WERE NO LONGER ABLE TO SING ABOUT THE COUNTRY LIFE
The roots of this art, dance and song is Ireland and it is alive and well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsssHAnBW8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmjdYTFvJw
Its Irish btw, not a scots or a scotch anything,
You wont find this type of dancing outside Ireland or where the Irish went (which is about everywhere even scot comes from what the romans called Irish tribes)
I would say England, Scotland (including the Scots-Irish) and Germany have contributed the majority of what we call Appalachian (my native region….east Tennessee) or old-time music. I have studied, and played, the music for years. Many of the fiddle tunes probably have Scots-Irish roots. Many of the ballads I have heard mountain people talk about or sing were English or Scottish. Most southern mountain folk were steeped in the music of the Baptist and Methodist churches which had as their core hymns from English and Scottish and German hymnwriters. Most of old time, bluegrass and country music had its roots in the south and in southern Appalachia, not in northern Appalachia. When Cecil Sharp traveled the southern mountains he found a treasure trove of English and Scottish ballads but there is also a waltz tradition (German) which is why most fiddle contests will require a hoedown and a waltz. But the music of Appalachia was reflective of southern music in general. It simply hung on in the mountains longer due to isolation. My maternal grandmother, who lived in Piedmont North Carolina, used to sing the old English folk ballad "Lord Thomas" and the southern ballad "Naomi Wise" as well as other ballads like the "Fatal Wedding" and so on.
My maternal grandmother's family life on Sugar Run in Giles County Virginia, near Visalia and Pearisburg. Is there a connection?
I grew up in the Blueridge mountains of North Carolina and use to set by the fire place and listen as my uncles and aunts picked and sang ballads and songs. God what wonderful days those were. Such days as those are gone forever but the music they loved so much still is being played to this day. HOW WONDERFUL ITS IS TO REMINISCE. I CAN CLOSE MY EYES AND STILL HEAR THEM PICKING AND SEE MY AUNTS CLOGGING.
I cant remember but years ago someone put an album out titled Appalachian folks its a agreat album of really old time music
Let’s hear the music and cut the talk.
People in the US have no clues. The reason the US exist is because of immigration. All the music stems from those from the old country from all over Europe and other countries. Once people settled here, and more generations born to this nation it began changing. Bottom line is the roots are from other countries that built the US.
Great music
Bluegrass is not mountain music
These pics look like their out of a horror movie….
“Songcatcher” is an excellent docu-drama about our Appalachian music.
WATCH THIS VIDEO! I just uploaded a YouTube video which compares rare traditional recordings Appalachian traditional music with ancient British ballads. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUGoWwGKwSA&t=607s
Feel free to explore my channel for more content about traditional music!
Love this history. We try to tell it too!
So AppaLACH-EE-AH is correct, not AppaLAY-SHA?
Another stolen art form,
Go see the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers and they'll give you the full dose of real Appalachian music and the history.
Appalachian music is real music! Love old time string bands, good musicianship, and real soul.
Bluegrass is the ribs fried Chicken and grits mainstream now is nothing but fast food may as well eat the box it came in but some of us still cherish the good stuff
What is the origin of the photo at 0:21? A gamba consort and lute with players in renaissance dress. Very curious. It looks like a photo from the C20th early music revival.
Some documentry , cut the talk ,give us the music
I remember as a kid at my grandparents house along in the evening a couple of their friends would stop by and bring their instruments and play while my grandma would rock in her chair and sing some and grandpa would whittle
Your. Forgetting the English, many songs today are of English origins not forgetting flat foot and clogging.
Appalachian music of the 'Scotch-Irish' stems from the wild Border Scots clans who were banished to Ulster by James VI of Scotland (and 1st of England) many of whom later migrated to the American colonies… they were never Irish… nor did Irish music have any influence on those Border Scots protestants… even in Ulster!
My grandmother on my mother's side grew up in Floyd Co. Virginia in late 1880s. She was a stout woman, grizzled from the work they had to do to survive.
Sugar Run guitar picker…howdy "Kinfolk"
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Awesome!
Too much yapping and only a tiny bit of good sound.
Appalachia is trendy now, ugghh
Now I would consider this more authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5ZYXi6EiE
Many, many years ago I used to go to the AP Carter store in VA. that was bluegrass.
Home to me is the Shenandoah valley, there’s no more beautiful place on earth than Appalachia.
You're selling the Scots short. Their music had a tremendous influence on Appalachian music, and on Irish music as well.
I don't know where people are getting this idea that the traditional bluegrass music mixed in with African American blues. The traditional Appalachian fiddle music came directly from Irish fiddle music and to this day most of the tunes sound exactly like the Irish music whether its a dirge a lark a ditty or whatever. African Americans had only knowledge of tribal music from Africa. They came here and learned the Christian and Folk music of the Irish and Scottish settlers. The African American blues was derived from the Scottish and Irish music. Not the reverse.