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Country music

The history of country music

The origins of country music can be found in recordings Southern Appalachian fiddle players made in the late 1910s.

Vernon Dalhart had the first national country hit in 1924 with "Wreck of the Old'97". But most historians point to 1927, the year Victor Records signed Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter family, as the true moment country music was born.

The Carter family was country music's first famous vocal group. Two of their earliest hits "Keep on the Sunny Side" and "Wildwood Flower" remain country standards to this day.

Folk music

American folk music has no precise nameable origin because it organically grew out of a communal tradition more than for entertainment or profit. There are folk songs that date so far back they can be considered oral histories.

From its origins, folk music has been the music of the working class. It is community-focused and has rarely enjoyed commercial success. Folk songs range in subject matter from war, work, civil rights and economic hardship to nonsense, satire and, of course, love songs.

The history folk music

Blues music

THE HISTORY BLUES MUSIC

Blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music it self goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.

The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century.

GOSPEL MUSIC

THE HISTORY OF GOSPEL MUSIC

The roots of gospel music are not well documented. Early recordings were lost. Stories behind the songs weren't written down.Gospel music is a genre of Christian music. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace.Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century.

ROCK MUSIC

THE HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC

In the sixties rock music cames and dominated the popular music charts. Elvis Presley continues to score hits in the early part of the decade, but the music continues to diversify with the folk revival, the Brill Building sound, Phil Spector's wall of sound, girl groups and surf music, all Impacting the early part of the decade. The Motown, Stax and Atlantic labels brought more African-American artists back to the forefront of the pop charts. By 1964 American artists

Were sharing the top of the charts with U.K. bands led by the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In the U.S. garage bands emerge, inspired by the British Invasion sound.

Sixties songwriting moved beyond pop love songs and began to include social consciousness and political statements. In the latter half of the decade psychedelic music reflected the growing hippie culture.

ROCABILLY MUSIC

THE HISTORY OF ROCKABILLY MUSIC

Rockabilly, early form of rock music originated by white performers in the American South, popular from the mid-1950s to 1960, with a revival in the late 1970s. Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly—literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies—to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.In the late 1940s radio was broadcasting blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel music. In July 1954, in his first session for Sam Phillips’s Sun label of Memphis, Tennessee, Presley recorded two songs that would lay the foundation for rockabilly.