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David Holt: The Roots of Mountain Music WebsiteDavid Holt: The Roots of Mountain Music Website
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David Holt: The Roots of Mountain Music

Curated by ACT

This is a short history of the major influences that have combined to create mountain music, one of which is minstrel music. Provides a good decription of minstrel music in general. Includes names and descriptions of specific songs, famous people, and general information on the minstrel shows themselves.

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Concepts

ballads, civil war, vaudeville, john henry

Additional Tags

banjo, entertainer, entertainers, fiddle, mintrel songs, mountain music, parlor songs, performers, radio, records, african, blues, cat came back, dan emmett, dixie, emmett, english, fiddle tunes, glendy burke, jazz, joe sweeney, medicine shows, minstrelsy, mountain songs, religious music, rock, stephen foster, song, songs, songs of the minstrel show

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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