2/17/2024 0 Comments Hip hop scotchLived and blended their culture with African slaves. However, there was a wide collar-shapedīuffer zone between Appalachia and the coastal region where Scots-Irish whites Of the South was focused along the coastal regions and the plantations. And while the population demographics ofĪppalachia favored Scots-Irish immigrants and descendants, the black population Question that Appalachian folk music is loaded with Scots-Irish influence. In 1916, the British musicologist Cecil SharpĬoncluded that there were more original English folk tunes to be found in To Appalachia (especially after the England-Scotland Union of 1707). population was 80% British,Īnd up until 1890, well over half of all immigrants to the Unites States wereįrom England, Scotland, Wales, or Ireland.Īlso, almost all of the Scots-Irish immigrants managed to find their way Now, what does all that have to do with Southern music? In 1800, the U.S. Scotch snaps are found throughout the music of any culture that speaks anyĭerivation of English (such as Gaelic), and that includes the English, the Music, then all German music is noticeably similar to Italian in rhythm, and Rhythm, and since German vocal music is heavily influenced by Italian vocal Than Romance languages? How does that work? Romance languages have a different trademark Of Southern music is loaded with Scotch snaps.īut wait, aren’t Nordic languages like German more similar to English Southern music is an English-speaking art, and every genre Italian, or Spanish, since none of those languages contain a Scotch snap in Is unique to English, then the Scotch snap is unique to the music ofįound at all in German or Latin-based Romance languages, such as French, Is based on the spoken language, then Scottish music follows a Scotch snap pattern Of two-syllable words in the English language require a Scotch snap for correct Pretty, basic, running, jumping, hitting, Peter, Phillip, David, English, Pronounce all of the following English words is with a Scotch snap – “uncle, Traditional Scottish folk music comes directly from the spoken English (beginĪs it turns out, the Scotch snap rhythm that originated in You only need to watch about a minute in order to get the idea. These are the first two notes in each phrase,Īnd those two notes are the Scotch snaps. Will fit the word “Bonnie” when pronounced crisply. Watch the following instructional video, find the notes that she plays which (strong) note followed by a longer, unaccented (weak) note. Heard originally in Scottish strathspeys, and it consists of a short, accented Musically, the Scotch snap is an identifiably unique rhythm Identify the common thread of musical DNA that runs through everything. If that is true, then I should be able to My contention that all American music is actually Southern music. Now, I have presented here at Abbeville on several occasions The poor composer Dvorak, who couldn’t tell Scottish music and Negro music That is what authentic Southern black music sounded like in Songs are old and traditional, while others are modernized into the 21 stĬentury. They are not an historicalĪuthentic string band music as taught to them by one of the last-surviving Music in America always featured the sound of the banjo.Ĭonsider a modern-day string band called the CarolinaĬhocolate Drops. Therefore, original and traditional black String bands were numerous and successful throughout the South in the 19 thĪnd early 20 th centuries. (the instrumentation would vary, but a string band usually featured a fiddle, a Plantation by John Rose from about 1790, and it depicts a slave string band Probably the earliest known depiction of a banjo in American Slaves constructed them out of hollow gourds, animal skin, and sticks of Was brought over in the slave trade in the 17 th century, and early However, the banjo is actually a West African That in contemporary times is associated with poor rural Southern whites. Hiding behind our 21 st century misconceptions as to what 19 thĪnd most Americans have a terrible tendency to separate Southern musicalĬulture into social and political categories, which leads to obviouslyįor example, the banjo (and banjo music) is a phenomenon How could a professional musician and composer get those two things mixed Moved by traditional Southern folk music, Dvorak complained that he simplyĬouldn’t tell the difference between Scottish music and Negro music. Although he was fascinated, inspired, and United States in 1892, and immersed himself in American music while composing The Czechoslovakian composer Antonin Dvorak moved to the I need to tell you one story in order to tell you another.
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