Home
Subjects
Textbook solutions
Create
Study sets, textbooks, questions
Log in
Sign up
Upgrade to remove ads
Only $35.99/year
History of Country Music Exam 3 Material
STUDY
Flashcards
Learn
Write
Spell
Test
PLAY
Match
Gravity
Terms in this set (37)
Lefty Frizzell
Hank William's main rival
"honkey tonk" music
influenced Merle Haggard
If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
Honkey Tonk Music Era
starts with Ernest Tubb in 1941- pre-rock
Chet Atkins- record executive/great guitar player
The Carlisles- "Jumpin" Bill Carlisle and Cliff Carlisle
Hank Snow
Grand Ole Opry- 1950
I've Been Everywhere- later recorded by Johnny Cash
Influenced by Vernon Dalhart and Jimmie Rodgers
Webb Pierce
heavily influenced by Jimmie Rodgers
very successful in the 1950s- second to Hank Williams
Hank Thompson
The Wild Side of Life- 1952
Kitty Wells
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels: answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"
Queen of Country Music
Top female vocalist for 13 years- 1952-1965
Bill Monroe
"father" of bluegrass
Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
Earl Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's band and together they created bluegrass music- Scruggs's banjo playing!
Earl Scruggs
grew up in NC playing banjo
"Scruggs style bajo"- 3-fingered style of banjo playing (revolutionary)
Flatt and Scruggs
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
soon eclipsed Bill Monroe's band in popularity
Louise Scruggs- first female manager and booking agent in Nashville
Recorded theme song for the Beverly Hillbillies
Martha White Flour
sponsor of Flatt and Scruggs- got them on the Opry
"Martha White"
Louisa Scruggs
Earl Scruggs's wife
no-nonsense, great at selling records
made Flatt and Scruggs record things that would sell records- Bob Dylan songs!
Jimmy Martin
"Mick Jagger" of bluegrass
raised in Sneedville, TN
idolized Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Acuff
"King of Bluegrass" and "Mr. Good and Country"
never made it onto the Opry
Osbourne Brothers
Sunny and Bobby Osbourne
very innovative- not traditional bluegrass
"Rockytop Tennessee"
New Grass Revival
progressive bluegrass band
many people who played in Bill Monroe's band went on to become progressive bluegrass acts
The Seldom Scene
progressive bluegrass band
combination of bluegrass and country music
based in DC
Sets with similar terms
Country Music Final
83 terms
Intro to Soul & Country #1
48 terms
Listening Quiz #3
25 terms
Music Quiz 3 types
25 terms
Other sets by this creator
Intermediate Spanish Exam 2
92 terms
Intermediate Spanish Exam 1 Past Tense
36 terms
Intermediate Spanish Exam 1 Vocab
74 terms
Neuroscience Exam 4
119 terms
Verified questions
WORLD HISTORY
Use the document to answer the following questions. The British Parliament debated a bill that would ban factory owners from hiring children under the age of nine or working children under sixteen longer than sixteen hours in a day. "[Lord Kenyon] proceeded to enter into some detail of the evidence given before the committee, for the purpose of showing the Injury that resulted to the health of the children, from being employed for 14, 15, or 16 hours a day in places heated to 80, 85 and nearly 90 degrees... The Earl of Rosslyn said, . . . (it was) as an incontestible fact, that parents were the natural guardians of the health and prosperity of their own children, and that the legislature ought to be slow to interfere with free labour.... “—from the record of the House of Lords debate on the Cotton Factories Regulation Bill, June 14, 1819. What can you infer about the opportunities for children to attend school at this time?
WORLD HISTORY
How did Cyrus treat the peoples he conquered?
WORLD HISTORY
What groups of people were to be sent to Constantinople? A.Hebrews and Christians B.Christians and Turks C.Christians, Hebrews, and Turkish Muslims D.Imperial armies
WORLD HISTORY
Which positive or negative results of conquest for Rome had the most impact?
Other Quizlet sets
Bilingualism Midterm
43 terms
PRAXIS Study Set
102 terms
Geology Final Exam review
57 terms
American Gov. A Final Review
23 terms