Beyonce vs Country Music: Texas Hold 'Em
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Why is Beyoncé's new country song, "Texas Hold 'Em," no't getting played on the radio? Chris Armstrong, a bluegrass expert, talks about the African heritage of bluegrass music. He performs with the "Sons of Bluegrass" band, and also wrote and performed the Moonpie jingle! • The MoonPie Jingle
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Very interesting
17:30 that sounded like a James Brown song. JB was from South Carolina. His early music was blues and jazz, as he slowly transformed it (invented/ developed) funk.
*“A pentatonic scale is a five-note scale, while heptatonic is seven notes. That specific scale originates from Africa, particularly West Africa. It is not found in the classical Western tradition or other musical traditions around the world, which have their own unique musical systems.”*
(Adam Hudson, The African roots of blues music, the blues scale)
"Jazz harmony at its structural and aesthetic level is based predominantly on African matrices,..."
(Gerhard Kubik, The African Matrix in Jazz Harmonic Practices)
Black Music Research Journal
Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (Spring - Fall, 2005), pp. 167-222 (56 pages)
Published By: Center for Black Music Research
Ps. I do see a few Behringer Model D keyboards and the RD-8 in the background.
I don't know if I'm wrong but with all due respect you I watch your commentary and I noticed that you are very contradictory with your family's history 1 minute you're saying your family sister is Italian the next minute they are you know mixing from Louisiana Creole and Texas and I just think you are trying to dismiss the African indigenous African origin that is definitely dominated in your bloodline and it shows on you more than the other relatives that you have on your commentary I don't know if that is exactly what you're doing but it seems to me that you are trying to exclude your African heritage and DNA with these different ethnicities that you bring up quite often and it's quite confusing to me so I'm just wondering are you a creole a mixed race because you definitely have the phenotype of African blood you you look to be mixed race but the one thing that stands out for me most with you is a of color and I think you try to deny the fact that you have African origin with proclaiming to be other ethnicities but not adding in the African ethnicity and I think that is wrong and
Ken Burns, a well known documentarian, launched a country music documentary a few years ago that highlighted the black American roots of country music. He discussed in depth on how the early founders of country music were musically mentored by black Americans.
OOH Ken Burns is the man in the doc field. I should see this! thanks
@@nytn yes. It’s a good documentary. It has many parts to watch though. I didn’t know how extensive black American roots were in country music until I watched this documentary and I am a black American.
@nytn it's on Prime... many of his documentaries are, even his civil war documentary
He makes the BEST documentaries
Another excellent history of black Americans influence on all forms of what is considered AMERICAN (US) music, is the PBS series- AMERICAN Experience. Included is the African slave songs from the fields, delta blues, what is today gospel, how black classical composers were not allowed to perform. One of their series features a black composer who has written many songs and how by just rearranging the cords he could make it become a blues, country,jazz composition. Excellent series. ❤
Beyonce's from Texas, I'm not surprised she'd want to do country. I went to a Nelly concert at the DE state fair, expecting to hear hip hop songs I prefer. I learned Nelly has a huge country following, which the concert catered to. Many musicians get to the point where they want to play other genres. Music connects people.
One of the most influential musicians in history jazz great Charlie 'Bird' Parker loved country music. Other jazz musicians would say man why are you listening to that hillbillie music? Bird would tell them "it's the stories man, it's the stories".
@@beaujac311Exactly. It's the stories.
Listen where is the common sense with Americans pain is art. Every group has something to offer. America is the most racist country on the planet.
"Exactly",Well Spoken!!
Nelly has an album called country grammar wdym 😂😂
Charley Pride was definitely a Black country music star. He was around for a long time.❤
Charley Pride experienced racial discrimination by white country music artists and fans.
Correct, the one. Until Darius Rucker.
@@paulacopeland8360 true, but a lot of white people did listen and support the black artists but the by the law they couldn’t go to alot of places
@@paulacopeland8360 Charley said that he got to know who his real friends were.
@@lmlm_ Not quite. Ray Charles released Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962. He pre-dated Charley Pride.
People did “covers” all the time on “Black peoples songs “ and get a “hit “. No royalty or credit to the original owner.
Yeah.. add a county twang and it’s no longer black. Dolly Parton was one of the few reverse situations where a county song was covered by a pop star, but Dolly most certainly got paid 😊
Great point
@@majorlazor5058but most Weren’t paid
Led Zeppelin is the biggest offender. Straight up ripped off old blues musicians...
@@cicada9471 Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds. Blues was so big in England that black blues artists ate good by touring in Britain.
I see you that you know that Beyonce is cajun royalty. She is the 6th great granddaughter of Joseph Broussard, the man who led the Acadians to Louisiana. Beyonce's creole roots stretch way back on her mother’s side of the family. Tina Knowles’ parents were both born in Louisiana. Tina’s mother, Agnez Dereon, was born in New Iberia, Louisiana. and her father, Lumas Beyince, was from Abbeville Louisiana. Both the Dereons and Beyinces were of French Creole heritage with ancestry stretching through African, French, Native American, Spanish and Indian cultures. Her ancestors were wearing cowboy hats, boots, and riding horses before most of the country was a part of the country. :-) BTW, the reaction was the same when Ray Charles came out with a country album. And you should have heard the groans when Elvis starting doing country music.
I have the original ray Charles record (like actual country and western sounds album) and it is SOOO good.
There's nothing Royal about Beyoncé. She's just an ordinary black woman with a talent for singing and dancing. The majority of the black race is white, black and native american Indian.
@@LinaPiscesunfortunately you are correct that small percentage of white water SOME us down a by 1-10 % however we are Black, African and Indians which Equals Black American 💯
Sounds like Beyoncé’s ancestors are definitely with her and within her. She is such an icon !!!
Wow, Loved reading your comment.
I am 61 years old and rarely buy music anymore, but this banning nonsense is the reason I will buy her new country music! WTH!
For sure. I listened to it a couple times. No reason why it cant be considered country. A lot of what they play in these Urban Country Stations are more of pop songs than country. So they fine ones to talk!
I'm no fan of Beyonce, but this attempt to shut her from the genre is just ridiculous. The puppet masters are already setting up the division because they know either way they stand to make millions from whatever the outcome.
@@veilhaslifted1280- BINGO! Wise beyond your years!
Back in the 1950's alot of prejudice people tried to shut down what they called "N-" music that popularly was labeled as Rock n Roll. But they failed because young people by the 1000's across every race, nationality you could think of wasn't having it. They stormed the radio stations. A guy name Alan Hale played it and even promoted a concert of these tock n roll artists. And when the $$$$$ came rolling in?
The rest was history.
You keep continuing that tradition!!
Those radio stations already know this is a losing strategy for them.
When you have die hard SWIFTIES jumping on the bus showing their support with her Beyhive-
its a bust!
I will buy Beyonce's country album. Banning her new music is racist pure and simple. White singers sing soul why can't black artists venture out?
This an example of certain people not giving black people credit for contributions to society...... We were second class citizens so we were never allowed to patent or copyright anything😢
Sometimes is just straight up ignorance and bigotry. Also, I’d wager most country music fans have no idea of its origins.
Facts
It's American history.....to do what you stated
We WISH we were second class citizens.
You are 2nd class if you believe so. You are born free. God made no man to be 2nd to another man that's slavery. Slavery is unconstitutional.
Thank you for bringing the receipts for what black people have been saying all along. Great episode!
amen
Maybe I am wrong, if so, correct me. I thought that "Country" (it used to be called "Country and Western") was a genre of music and identified by the instruments, chords, and rhythms, not by the performer making the music. There are "crossovers" all the time. Obviously, the fans want to hear the music played on the radio. Again, I could be wrong, but it sounds like the radio stations are alienating their listeners.
There are other artists from differing genres that crossover all the time. Not gonna get into that who, what, when, where, why, how. I found what I was looking for by listening and searching for albums. But, there are artists out there who will sneak elements of country into their respective genre's sound. Many of times I noticed it's out of some sort of reverence or protest. So, I'm sure these non-country artists aren't ignorant of country music's history💀
But the foundation is called folk music which turned into country than that traveled to the west. Remember the Westerners were from the country. The natives got forced out by poor people migrating from the south when after the government offered land in the west
@@TheHoodVoice2024Folk music came from the same foundation.
Agreed.
@layberry5979 Nay, country music would be NOTHING without African instruments (banjo, drums, guitar). I think everyone knew this!
"African American slaves on southern plantations cultivated their own musical styles, which later evolved into gospel, blues, and what is now known as bluegrass and country music. Slave fiddlers often provided dance music for the southern white gentry, and the sound we recognize today as country fiddling is partially the product of the slave fiddler." Black Americans made country music
Africans brought to America as slaves brought their music with them. The pink people steal everything from others and try to deny their origins.
I'm Latino and I can tell you that a lot of the things that you just mentioned were actually taken from native Americans. It's just that in history it's not mentioned because they were actually trying to get rid of anything native.
The music genre of blues Took the native american drum beat which they call the Heart beat Of mother earth. That beat is not african😂
Africans predate any Asian so called native. The true aboriginal people of America are black. That why Christopher colubu thought he was in India. Those Siberian Asians were a small number and most sided with Europeans invaders
@@bestia2.063Stop lying on here.
"the influence of black musicians on whites in Appalachia was profound but is now rarely acknowledged. In the early twentieth century, people in the mountains were listening to blues records and to black guitarists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake, blues singers such as Bessie Smith, and to the jazzy string band music of groups such as the Mississippi Sheiks. The guitar itself was introduced to the region by blacks. It was this interaction between blacks and whites in the unique social, economical, and geographical environment of the Southeast and particularly in Appalachia that led to the development of commercial country music and later bluegrass.
Source: Africa, Appalachia, and acculturation: The history of bluegrass music music Charles W. Perryman -Ph.D. dissertation
So you are saying blacks made the guitar? 😂 i didnt know it was a traditional african instrument
Finally somebody on this comment thread who actually took the trouble to find out what the real facts are. American music is people of all different backgrounds combining their musical traditions. I believe that it was predominantly African and Irish folk music traditions.
The banjo came from West Africa. It is not from America.
@@Rushy1932 Guitar origins start with muslims. Not africans. Banjo is a by product.
@@Rushy1932 The guitar originated in Spain and was definitely a European instrument. The banjo originated in Africa, but was perfected buy a European descended American. The Scotch-Irish lived in the Appalachians in pennsylvania, along with free black folks going back to before the revolution.
There would be no country or bluegrass without the banjo. There would be no blues without the guitar. Without both, there would be no rock and roll and no jazz. None of the musical styles that we are familiar with today as American folk music would exist if it weren't for Americans of both African and Irish descent. Lots of other cultural influences as well, but I believe those are the primary ones. In the appalachians, the culture was shared. Black and white, they all worked like dogs all day, then got together in the evenings, got s***-faced drunk, play music, and dance late into the night. That's where country and bluegrass came from. Racists have been trying to divide us all and turn us all against each other since the beginning. People keep falling for it. We are all human, we are all Americans, and this is our country. Americans are my people. Seeing my people being divided and hating each other is like a knife in my heart.
I am old enough to remember what is now called “Negro Prison Songs or chain gang songs,”the sound of the tools, axes, were the percussion beat. Her 16 chariots reminds me of that format!
Me, too!! That's what I heard immediately. Along with the sound of whips.
" Huh! Ha! Huh! Ha! That's the sound of a man, working on a chain....gang....." Sam Cooke
I'm not surprised. They don't give black people credit for Rock & Roll either.
@@AvaAdore-wx5ggSister Rosetta Tharpe came before all of them.
15 yrs later rap will be invented by Latinos
@AvaAdore-wx5gg There's a lot Americans that will tell you Elvis invented Rock & Roll so they're just as clueless!🤣😭💀
@AvaAdore-wx5gg The fact that I mentioned it means I already knew I just wanted the people that didn't know to know because I know other people are going to read the comment.
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg No worries ✌🏾
I was just recently listening to the song, O'Death, which was featured as part of the soundtrack of the movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and it has always been obvious to me that the song sounded like a Black spiritual or folk song in the way it was sang. Well, once I looked it up, though it's described as an Appalachian folk song, a printed version of it was cited in 1913, in the Journal of American Folklore as being sung by "Eastern North Carolina Negroes" circa 1908. Newsflash, Black people resided in Appalachia also.
As I commented to another one your videos, all Black people want is for everyone to be honest, tell the truth, and give credit where it's due. Syncretism happens over time and it's expected, however, everything African Americans have originated and contributed which has been appropriated in some form or fashion becomes effected by a revisionism of history that always attempt to erase us. Anyway, great video with a very knowledgeable guest.
I love that movie soundtrack!
Thank you for exposing the truth 😊👏🏽✊🏽
Yea, we want people to be fair but we don't want black artist like Beyonce promoting her music by having her team of PR people to call and bully stations into playing her music. If the song is good they're going to play it. I heard the song and give it a C- only because I've heard much better. I'm waiting on K. Michelle's country song because I heard it's fire. but, I'm tired of the thing with Beyonce and Jay-Z competing with Taylor Swift. I'm not here for pettiness. There's plenty of money for everyone.Maybe Beyonce fans don't know much about other music besides hers but now they will see that there's plenty of black artist who sing country music. At least maybe now we can hear music from Beyonce that doesn't have lots of explicit lyrics.
@@schoolgirl-c2iG"If the song is good they are going to play it". Guess you never heard of payola.
@@shells500tutubo Yea, I heard of it and all of that can be paid for by the artist. I guess you don't know the industry to well, Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment.
Thank you Beyonce, Danielle and, Chris for opening my eyes to the connection to the origins of country and bluegrass music. I never thought of the connection between blues and bluegrass.
Danielle, your content continues to be amazing and thank you for sharing and persevering through the controversies encountered along the way. ❤
Primary points brought up in this conversion cannot be overstated enough! Thank you for continuing to use your platform to not only create discussions but also to inform.
racist
@@judel-pi7vi racist? What? Are you afraid of the truth being told About the origin of country music 💯 percent being rooted in black culture!!
@judel-pi7vi It's racist because it doesn't fit your ideology, and you don't like it. Well, truth and facts still matter. Be blessed 🙌.
@@Lynda0917-lm9bpi read it wrong! i’m a beyonce fan i misread the comment
This was very enlightening. I was dumbfounded by the information shared in this video. Just last night I watched a Ted talk with Queen Esther: The true origins of country music.
There are those who say 2024 is the year for truthtellers.
Here's something to consider. Country music tends to lean towards traditional and conservative values. You shouldn't be surprised they hold republican sympathies.
My Dad use to listen to Charlie Pride. History is so important and we MUST keep the younger generations in the know with the truth.
I am a 56 year old black woman i appreciated this mans honesty about the banjo
Wow, everytime I tune in I learn something. Fascinating history. I love it and I learned so much. Of course she should have her music played on the stations. I listen all type of of music and grew up with my mom playing classical piano on her baby grand. In high school at her graduation she played the piano and drums, but she could play at least 3 other instruments self taught including the violin. Music speaks to people and Country music has deep roots in the Black community and culture, thank you for sharing Chris Armstrong with us. Great work as always!
RACISM. Who banned Taylor swift’s switch to POP? No one . Who resisted Taylor swift ? No one .
Um RW conservatives tried to cancel and resist Taylor Swift as she turned pop and raised awareness in registering voters.
I'm not a fan of Beyonce or Taylor Swift.
@@forthesnowflakes7691 But radio stations didn't refuse to play her music.
@@EmzAtch yes and Mexico is going to pay for a wall.
Who’s resisting Beyoncé?
I'm not a Beyonce fan. My pop music taste goes back to the Supremes, Stevie wonder, Marvin gaye and so on. But I applaud Beyonce musical adventure. I wasn't aware of the African connection to country music fascinating. Africa seems to have influenced much of the music in the Americas. In Angola Africa dance is called semba. When the Africans arrived in Brazil the pronunciation changed to Samba. The African yambu in Cuba became the rumba. The rumba is today's salsa. Dominican merengue also originally a slave dance. The Mexican song la Bamba is actually a slave wedding folk song. The line in the song de ti sere means I'll be yours. There is no Bamba in Spain. The Bamba comes from the Bamba people of central Africa.
So we are connected. Don't get me started with reggae and Calypso.
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Great info! 👍🏾
Bless you
We are all connected, since always - segregation is delusional.
Beyoncé would be allowed to play country if she feels like it, even if there wasn't any "evidence" or connection in the surface to some ancient African stuff. Let's be real. This thing that you are allowed to be in something just only if you are ethnically justified is beyond dumb. Don't want to be rude but it's really nonsense. There are tons of amazing Opera fans and singers in Africa, tons of Asian outstanding classical musicians, aren't they allowed?? People in the US need to claim their roots to better understand their history and identity , not to dictate advanced segregation.
@@elleanna5869 It is unfortunate that you are so ignorant. Improve your mind and you will follow.
Whitney Houston did Dolly Parton's "and I. Will always love you for the Bodyguard. No one made a big deal of it.
Donna Summer wrote Parton's #1 county hit "Starting Over."
Well, Whitney sang it as a pop/R&B ballad. She also covered the Greatest Love of All. I pray before I perish that America truly does away with this racism and bigotry. It’s so archaic
Doing a cover of a song is different than writing your own music as Beyoncé did. Dolly’s version became popular because of Whitney doing that cover. Beyoncé is writing original country music, that these country radio stations don’t want to play. Why? I wish I knew.
@@4daluvofnikki Im sorry, Dollys version was a monster hit a few times over when Whitney was a child, She covered it and it became a monster hit again and Dolly got extremely paid for it
That’s because they knew Dolly would benefit. And Dolly was pleased with it. But they don’t want to play Beyoncé because it would benefit her. And everybody knows what’s really behind it. sad.
Country, Rhythm and Blues artists have always sang each other's music. No one complained about Justin Timberlake recording country music. I wonder why????
Because he is a man. They didn’t complain about Darius Rucker either. 🤷🏽♀️
He's not country either.
ZYDECO is her cultural realm also. . our version of country music. Bayou Country. The Banjo is called Banza in Haiti. The Ngon,i Kora and Xallam of West Africa are the Banjo predecessors
Zydeco is not really her culture because she didn’t really grow up listening to music like that but country music is definitely her culture. She’s from Houston Texas.
@@CheekyCreoleShe has a song that indicates she’s Creole and Black American. Since Creole culture is closely associated with Zydeco, that could be what the commentator is referring to. No need to get excited.
@@tananario23 well, now I’m very excited because I was not even excited at all in my first comment lol as a creole woman I was just explaining that Beyoncé is not at all Creole. Dumb ass.
@@tananario23 and zydeco music is not closely related to Creole, IT IS CREOLE !. Beyoncé’s mom is creole & its not about your race its a cultural thing, so that’s why I said she is not you’re welcome!
Beyoncé is not a country music artist. She has to get in like all the others.. And it's hard to break into country music or be accepted by the Country Music Academy.
Thanks! Go off sis yall did this❤🎉🎉
☺️☺️♥️♥️thanks fam. We went there
Country music was made by black americans/ADOS , the audacity to lay claim to the genre and ban actual Black americans(Like beyonce) is crazy. Nvm the contributions black americans brought to country music besides being the curators. Like Ray charles who modernized its sound. Plus country music really doesnt exist its just a label Yts used to say they not doing the blues(and they are) but regardless country music stems from the slave fiddler
Yep. Soul food is now just considered southern food. People now even claim hip hop was not created by black Americans.
@AvaAdore-wx5ggyes we eat fried chicken livers. And I bet the way native Americans cooked cornbread is totally different from black Americans.
They never stop stealing yo
@AvaAdore-wx5ggyour so full of shhhh
@AvaAdore-wx5gg I'm aware clown just a typo but the only ppl confused are white ppl that Believe they actually invented some shit instead of stealing it lol
I just wanted to let you know that this was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it 💜
I enjoy your commentary so much. Confirmation of the affirmative. Keep up the good work❣️ Your guest was exceptional 🎼🎶🎧💓
Thank you so much!
I've never been a huge Beyonce fan, but I appreciate that she has put out this album.
Thanks for shedding your own light on this topic.
I'm also pleasantly surprised at the level of positivity in this comment section
Love to everyone who sees this.
What a great guest, this was a very informative video. Really enjoyed it!
Im not a big country music listener but I have about 20 country songs in my library. I do love a few songs including this one. It warms my heart to see it bring so many people together. This world needs all the positivity right now.
Also there's a great documentary called Louie Bluie (criterion collection) about the black string bands in the South...
History WE should ALL KNOW!!!! Thank you so much. Lest not forget where it all came from
Let thyjs have there own thing 🎉 like we have music we like
I really enjoyed this video 😃Fantastic guest 👌🏽
Yes, the Kora is the gourd instrument from west Africa.
Just seeing this comment after posting after it, but this! Yes 🙌🏾. The importance of Kora tradition is amazing. Glad to see its influence in the West getting proper recognition.
This was wonderful. I truly enjoyed your interview!! ❤😊
I really enjoyed this video. It was one of the best put out on the channel. Good job.
This was a really interesting video. Thanks for posting ❤
🔥🔥🔥 @nytn love this. I am a Afro-Mulugen genetically (Gibson/Brayboy/Locklear/, etc). This is really cool. I found that the Banjo and Kora instrument are really close in sound and build. In Mali history, the Kora was played by Mali empire “Jali” (griots). These people were memory specialists, who kept the oral records of family lineages and empire information via written song. Thank you for doing this… really good stuff 😊
A Afro what ? Lol
Malis history in North America goes waaaaayyyyyy back. It needs taught.
Heard the Dulcimer comes from Iraq as well. Via Mali, maybe (Islam)
Way to drill down on this connection. I could listen to your guest all day discourse on this stuff. Always lean something new when I come here Danielle. Love this, and Beyonce will be alight. lol.
Thanks baby girlll I enjoyed this....😊
🔥 Actually Charlie Pride, who was a Black man, strictly Country Music was not originally accepted into the Country Music/Grand Ole Opry.
Loretta Lynn was instructed that she should not shake his hand, when he won a Country Music Award.
Loretta Lynn gave him a warm hug.
Go look up the story.
Wow I loved Loretta before, that is awesome. I’ll look this up.
@@nytn
Danielle
🌷Linda Martell was the 1st Black American Woman of Country Music. She appeared on Hee Haw in 1970.
🌹Also the Pointer Sisters recorded Country music and the song "Fairytale" went to #13 on the Country Charts.
These events are on video on TH-cam
✔️Beyoncé doing Country Music 🎵🎶 has less to do with pure love and probably more to do with spreading her territory, imo.
Exactly
Fascinating report.
It's been known for a long time about "black" music's influence on rock n roll. It grieves me to hear that ANY performer, especially one of Beyoncé's prominence, would be treated and shunned in this manner by the radio stations.
@@batya7 The racism runs deep.
Yes, we are reclaiming our heritage.
Any station not playing a song people are requesting to hear is STUPID!! Music genres have crossed lines before and musicians have performed different genres in the past. Why are some stations making an issue of this?!?!
I don’t listen to any radio stations, so I honestly haven’t given this “bad news” the time of day. I saw. I noted their stupidity and moved on. But I’m glad you’re enlightening many! 😊
Truth ❤ the Banjo 🪕 is an African Instrument. The first time I heard this was from the Actor/Comedian, Steve Martin, who is a Banjo Player. He did a history of the Banjo on a PBS special.
I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO COVER THIS!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I googled and according to ASCAP one thing that qualifies for a country award is to have your record played on a country station. They're trying to stop this from happening. Of course Beyonce can sing country. It's called crossover.
I didn’t know that!
Beyounce is just announcing to all audiences that she is definitely playing that song.
The great thing about music is that we use our ears and souls to enjoy each other's talents!
Thank you all for sharing this history💯✊🏽✊🏽 we appreciate you💯
So happy you're covering this on your channel. A bit dumbfounded how many people are saying this is "revisionist" take of countey music when the history is THERE. I'm definitely excited what else Beyonce will be giving and some fans are speculating that act 3 will be rock 🤘 I'm hoping so!
Danielle, it's another "Thank You" This one reminded me of what I've heard in the past and taught me a little something "new." I was about to skip this one as I really didn't want to delve into the "controversy..." Our "world" is full of one mess after another. Fortunately, this didn't focus on that stuff and Mr. Armstrong's input was very enlightening. I went to college in Georgia and one of my dorm mates left after Freshman year to become a full time Bluegrass performer. He had the talent and skills... I do not know if he was able to make a living at it. I do know that he loved what he was doing.
She's too good they don't want her taking over. Haters always gonna hate
@purplespeckledappleeater8738 Most -- A technical point -- Acadians were deported to various British American colonies, where many were put into forced labour or servitude.[12][13] Some Acadians were deported to England, some to the Caribbean, and some to France. After being expelled to France, many Acadians were eventually recruited by the Spanish government to migrate to Luisiana (present-day Louisiana). These Acadians settled into or alongside the existing Louisiana Creole settlements, sometimes intermarrying with Creoles, and gradually developed what became known as Cajun culture.[14]
Oh lord have mercy. Country music origins are in the English, Scottish and Irish. It wasn't until the 30s and 40s that "hillbilly" music fused with blues and gospel. Armstrong needs to revisit his history.
When you listen to the music that was brought over, the origins are clear. The banjo definitely made it even better, however. 😀
CA did a super job breaking it down! And she shouldn't be transgressive, as it makes total sense to any Southerner who loves and knows the history of our shared American music! So glad to see more contemporary artists reclaiming and sharing our music to newer listeners! And of course she sounds great! 👍😎
Excellent. Love the honesty.
Amazing isn't it. Bluegrass music has African origins. The reason that these country music stations won't play Beyonce's country music is really racial prejudice.
They were called *field songs and sorrow songs* They laid the foundation for gospel, blues, jazz, r&b, etc: essentially laying the foundation for American music. 🎶
This music originates with black people regardless of whose hands have touched it. Born out of the blood, sweat, tears, the heart and soul of us. To be left of all the genres created through our lives experiences because of racism. Because certain people love to take and never really give (like credit). The only genre of music they left us with today is so tainted as to destroy the minds of our youth. I believe they feel inundated with black artist moving over to country music, when all they are doing is returning to our roots. I've been learning and realizing over the past few years that much of what is deemed American culture, is in black American or even African culture (even if we ourselves don't know it). The music, the food, the manner of dress, the words used in pop culture. Yet many in this country will go out of its way to completely remove us from. I don't believe in all contibutions mattering this issue to a people who don't care about thruth and fairness.
We are not perfect people. However, we've given a lot of ourselves to so many with open arms. Only to be ultimately used and pushed aside. It's an pandemic of cultural appropriators, not appreciators. That includes the latin music, dance, and culture created by the African diaspora but represented by white latinos who take sole credit not only for its creation, but its contributions to American society. When the world is taught to see you as a slave or a lesser life form, everything you do belongs to them. Worlwide contributions stolen and attributed to others! Not okay!
Enough is enough!
Fascinating information & discussion. To me, not playing “Beyoncé” is pure racism as people think of her as a black artist. Country music is “country” because of the instruments used in the music. The color of the artist has nothing to do with anything about the actual music. I loved the song “Daddy’s Lessons” by Beyoncé. I want to listen to her new song-completely, not just the snippets! I discovered this channel because of the controversy around Beyoncé’s latest song and albums. I was a US history major in college. I want to learn more from this channel on TH-cam!
There are many black country western singers much better than Beyonce who are not as famous as Beyonce why is that ? Perhaps because the majority of black people don’t listen to country- if you all saying you invented it what happened then?
Here's a great question for society to ask itself - if it was Gwen Stefani instead of Beyonce would the response be the same?
Also interesting- Kid Rock. He started in the rap genre and was taken under the wings of black folks who taught and helped him only for him to now join the country community and not only not give credit where credit is due by more or less be disrespectful to the black community. The kicker on him is he grew up wealthy in MI! Even his trailer park persona is fake.
True music lovers know where the roots come from. Smart business people know when to act. Small minded folks will continue to show their true colors and if ugly was a color they'd be that one! ✌️❤️🙏🎶
Yah Gwen Stefani has gone through a lot of changes. She has a serious Chola vibe for while
@@nytn yes and the Indian (India) vibe when she was dating the guy in No Doubt. She even has spoken on how his mom inspired her to wear the face stickers/jewelry.
She WAS called out for Asian "cultural appropriation" but has clearly weathered the storm.
Yes I remember that! She used to wear the face jewels. My friends wore them too
I play rockabilly and blues trust me black folks taught you guys all of this
I loveee rockabilly so much. I wish I knew how to pull that off haha
I ‘ve heard both songs in the last couple of days and really like them. It’s kind of like when whites were crossing over to hip-hop and rap people got up in arms and now Beyoncé is crossing “black” over to Country. It’s like telling an explorer that you can’t explore the world that you can only explore your backyard. Well Beyoncé is gone way out of her backyard and people want her to get back into her backyard. She’s doing this to prove a point and also to explore new territory. Good music is good music doesn’t matter who it’s coming from!! RIGHT!??!
Such a great editor. Excellent work Danielle
LOL. I just fixed it. Man oh man. Thanks for hanging w/ me :)
@@nytn You’re doing great Danielle, keep up the amazing and riveting work and let’s chat about the Amish stuff afore long, I think it deserves a home.
I am 100% going to do that. Let's do it
Thank you both for such an interesting and historical video. I have learned so much. ❤
Do people still listen to the radio? Those stations are becoming obsolete. I love that streaming eliminates the gatekeepers
I am AA, my mom got into country music with Shania Twain, Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith r.i.p. In the 80's 90's my mom was into all different music from growing up with R&B, Blues, Jazz Black artists mostly.
I enjoy your show. As one who also does family genealogy I indulge in the historical aspects as well.
My mom played the harmonica, a skill taught to her by her father that was born in 1857 TN according to records. My mom shared with me stories about her father playing the fiddle and singing for hire at parties for southern white people.
My mom would reminisce and sing some of the songs. For sure it was country music. My mother died in 2022 at the age of 100. I am so blessed she had so many family stories to share with me.
Keep doing what you do. Don't let ignorant evil people deter you. Your work crosses over and I appreciate it. Enjoyed your guest.
FBA/ADOS created country, rock, jazz, hip-hop, gospel, funk, r&b, & etc. These other race groups need to show respect in the music genere FBA/ADOS has created
The issue isn’t about her being black. The issue with the country music industry is that they perceive her to be a POP, R&B Hiphop artist 🧑🎨 If a “country” artist does a remix of Texas Hold ‘Em, like Lil Nas did then she’d get played.
People are so weird about this. Country as a genre was created and born out of African slaves along with blues, gospel etc. African instruments from Africa originated that “country” sound. The banjo, the fiddle are all used in country music today came from slaves. Country became “white” in the 1920s as a marketing ploy for radio stations. How this genre still remains “white” is beyond me. It now has a hold on mainstream culture to keep black or other people out of country music. Country music is my favorite genre of music and I listen to it daily. I love that Beyoncé is continuing to explore different avenues of music and creativity I just hope she shines light on the thousands of black artists already in this genre and that are making great music.
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Real talk talk sista whites have always stolen from us hell every one steals from us then turn around and say we have no culture untalented and unoriginal group of people truth is truth
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bullshit country music's roots are in British and Irish folk music.
@@bradrogers3033 prove it
Meanwhile Hall & Oates, Teena Marie, and Justin Timberlake got played all over R&B stations and no one batted an eye.
Lookup DeFord Bailey. He was one of the first acts of the Grand Ol Opry and Black man.
Beyonce' is a genius. Millions of people had no clue of the roots of country music but they're learning now.
Those Barn Dances, were what is called The Morris Dance which is a Traditional English Dance. Unbeknown to most people, Most Settles, and Indentured, and enslaved in America, were Black Irish, Scottish, Germans, and others along with the aboriginal Copper coloured people of America. As I mentioned the banjo before, it’s true orin is Andalusia or Iberia Spain today, brought to the Caribbean and America by Muslim Moors, either directly from Spain, or through England as many were migrants in England. People don’t know Beyonce’s ancestry is French and Native American origin.
nonsense, The name of the instrument hasn't even changed. It is called the same thing in the U.S. that it was called in Africa. There actually is no historical debate regarding the origins of the Banjo. It's never been in debate. Beyonce is a Half Louisiana Creole ( meaning a mix of African, French, Spanish, and native) and southern African-American her father is an African American from Alabama. She, Like All African Americans due to the sexual exploitation of enslaved African women by white, enslavers is mixed race. All African Americans are. Every last one, mostly mixed with Scots/ Irish, and English.
@@clementmckenzie7041 Andalusi music was allegedly born in the Emirate of Cordoba (Al-Andalus) in the 9th century. Born and raised in Iraq, Ziryâb (d. 857), who later became court musician of Abd al-Rahman II in Cordoba, is sometimes credited with its invention. Later, the poet, composer, and philosopher Ibn Bajjah (d. 1139) of Saragossa is said to have combined the style of Ziryâb with Western approaches to produce a wholly new style that spread across Iberia and North Africa.[1]
By the 10th century, Muslim Iberia had become a center for the manufacture of musical instruments. These spread gradually to Provence, influencing French troubadours and trouvères and eventually reaching the rest of Europe. The English words lute, rebec, guitar, and naker derive from the Arabic oud, rabab, qithara and naqareh, although some Arabic terms (qithara, for example) had been derived in their turn from Vulgar Latin, Greek and other languages like Persian.
@@clementmckenzie7041 For more than a thousand years the musical styles of the Arabs and Jews have flourished and intermingled in the western Mediterranean region of southern Spain and North Africa. For nearly seven centuries at the Muslim courts of Cordoba, Sevilla and Granada in southern Spain the arts of poetry, music and architecture flourished. The music known as al’Ala l-Andalusia was born in this environment and can be traced to the early 9th century A.D. with the arrival of the Persian musician Ziryab at the court of ‘Abd er-Rahman II in Cordoba. At his court and those of subsequent Sultans throughout Andalusia music played an increasingly important role; Arab, Jewish and Christian musicians and poets were employed and performed together. As with most music of the time, poetry played an integral role as it does in Arab-Andalusian music to this day. Indeed it was in Andalusia that new styles of Arabic poetry evolved muwashshah and zajal. These forms, influenced by indigenous Iberian poetry, heralded a new era in which the Andalusian song cycles known as nubat were born. Each of the major cities of Muslim Spain had a variant (and competing) style. As conflict between the Christians and Moors increased, the music was carried to North Africa by the Moors and Jews as they emigrated from the late 12th century until their final expulsion in 1492.
Jews continued to play a seminal role in the performance of Arab-Andalusian music in North Africa, in particular in the Moroccan cities of Fes, Rabat and Tetouan, which became principal centers of the tradition. Early texts reveal Arabic poetry written in Hebrew letters reinforcing the close connection between Jewish and Arabic scholarship and culture.
In Morocco, as elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East, the distinctions between classical, folk and popular musics are blurred. While al’Ala l-Andalusia is essentially a classical genre that developed at the Spanish courts, its current form took shape in North Africa where it acquired new instruments and influences from the indigenous Berbers and from the West as well as from Arab folk music. The violin has largely replaced the rebab, the traditional bowed lute of Morocco. Often the suisen, a pear-shaped skin faced lute, or the banjo is added, giving the music a more percussive timbre. Often West instruments such as the piano, accordion and even the saxophone are used in performing the Andalusian music of Spain’s Golden Age when Jews, Arabs and Christians lived together in relative harmony. www.gerardedery.com/blog/the-judeo-andalusian-traditions-of-morocco
@@clementmckenzie7041 Name one ship that arrived from Africa between 1492 and 1838, also, can you provide one historical sources, that documented any of the 680 different Bantu speaking languages of West Africa, being spoken in 350 years in any English Colonies? please send it, as these’s no way you can transport 12-60million Africans yet no languages documented. But, I can show you sources, of the Paw Paw language being spoken by a group of enslaved people in Jamaica. ( A New history of Jamaica by Charles Leslie 1751) Likewise many native Americans from Kings Phillip’s war.
I love our musical heritage. Good for the soul! We left the British Isles, but they never left us!
Your video inspired me to check out her new song. Honestly, it sounds like what passes for "country music" these days. I say "passes" because I grew up with Outlaw Country and singers such as Charley Pride, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, and Patsy Cline (courtesy of my grandma). Many of the Country songs that come out these days could easily be considered Pop or Alt-Rock.
That being said, Houston is very diverse when it comes to music, and Beyonce shouldn't be shamed for her Country songs. Heck, I grew up listening to everything from Tejano and Zydeco to Rap, Country and Metal. Music should unite people, not divide them.
I rode rodeo in high school out of Mansfield, Texas. Hunt sove, hogs and deer in South Texas, we have several small ranches and hunt camps. Know tons of black folks in rural areas that do the same. Even lived in rural Mexico, Argentina and central America. And yes I am black. Merle haggard is my favorite singer and dig John pardi lately among many others.
In Argentina were you a gaucho and drink yerba mate?
@@stephenfisher3721 one year there in jr high. No gaucho but rode horses. Loved mate and housekeeper made it everyday.
You have great taste… I like the older country music myself…
Was fortunate to see many great shows in the dance halls of Texas.
and yes… Driving many back roads in Texas it’s not uncommon to see black folks wearing cowboy hats and riding horses… even in the Houston area
@@TheTexasTodd billy Bob's Fort Worth; Gruene, Texican bars in the RGV. Love em all. My buddies and I saw Charli McClain at rodeo in Dallas in the 80s. She called down for cowboys to come to stage. We jumped out of the bleachers and buddy broke his arm. Lol we loved country music esp. 70, 80 s
Loved Charlie Pride and Johnny Rodriguez.
This was fabulous! Thank you!
AFRICA, APPALACHIA, AND ACCULTURATION: THE HISTORY OF BLUEGRASS MUSIC by Charles W. Perryman
Though primarily associated with white Southerners, bluegrass music is actually the product of over three hundred years of black and white musical interaction that occurred in the American Southeast. This document begins by reviewing the first complete definition of bluegrass music written by Mayne Smith. It then proceeds to explore the history of cross cultural exchanges in the South, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains, that began when the first slaves were brought to the New World. In the South, these interactions created the folk music that would eventually develop into country music and later bluegrass in the twentieth century. Black musical styles also directly influenced the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, especially through his contact with the blues musician Arnold Shultz. The banjo playing of Earl Scruggs, an essential element of bluegrass, also owes a significant debt to African-American banjo styles found in Scruggs’s native region of North Carolina.
Source: Charles W. Perryman Ph.D. dissertation
Wow!
Beautifully highlighted here, thank you for this video. Personally I like that B. is at a place in her career where she hss the creative freedom to do what she wants. It's as if she's celebrating her Masters in every Genre that she loves. So that when she's complete she can say she deserves Album of the year because she is a Master of the musical Art. It reminds me of Madonna when she made a sharp sound change. Also Pink went from RnB to Rock/Pop and no one batted an eyelid... Is she not allowed creative flow... the industry needs to be more open to creative develpment... ❤
I look at country music as blues with a twang. I, myself an a contemporary jazz fan. but I do love the history of music.
If you listen to Gypsy Eyes by Hendrix Experience you'll notice the point brought up about Funk and Country having similarities. Gypsy Eyes starts out as a country stomp number. Then, translations into a Blues-Funk Afro booty shaker. Clearly, Jimi knew how to walk the line as a Northerner.
Jazz influenced the western part of country and western. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys played a swinging form of western music.
I have always loved Country Music. I still play Kenny, Crystal, Eddie Rabbit, Charlie Pride etc. So please!
I don't see any rock stations not willing to play Dolly's rock album...
I enjoyed Mr. Armstrong’s talk. Excellent video!
Umh, I just tried to search for Bey’s (Texas hold em) full video on you tube and it brought of JLo and other videos that are not her video. Suspicious!!!
I shared this video with my granddaughter, and she was motivated to include this topic as a sub topic to an essay that she’s writing in high school. Your content is great. Also, I really enjoyed Chris and I’m going to go and check out his channel.
outstanding discussion
Mr. Charlie Pride was the first Country performer at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum in 1977. He played to a full house, if I am not mistaken he took Elvis Presley's place. There was no boycotting, I am sure black artist have had their road blocks, but they prevailed and paved the way for other black artist. I am not understanding how we are not admiring their achievements.
I’m not a Beyonce fan on any level, however MORE POWER TO HER!!! Collect what’s ours originally. She has a great country voice I must admit. Don’t hate, yall imitate everything we do 😂😅❤❤
Im from Kongo (DRC ) few years ago heard on song from church thats sound literraly country music, so sursprised and told myself thats the group was doing some country music ignoring that there were just singing the way we always sing in that region and the instrumental to...also with the "rumba "music very popular for us in kongo thats have been brought trough slavery in country like cuba , now became salsa music ...You got Quenn B reclame your heritage ! Great video by the way , thank you.
There is the old joke...What happens when you play a country and western record backwards? Answer: You get your dog back, your job back, your house back, your kids back, your wife back, and your mistress back.
DONNA SUMMER was the FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN to write a #1 country song "STARTING OVER AGAIN " for Dolly Parton
I got “sucked in “ by the Beyoncé title…but I I ended up getting educated in music history ….good stuff…
* DIANA ROSS =
"SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD"
* NATALIE COLE = "YOUR LONELY HEART"
* STEVIE WONDER = "I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT"
* RAY CHARLES = " I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU"
* CHARLIE PRIDE =
"ANYTHING & EVERYTHING HE'S EVER SUNG"
* DARIUS RUCKER = " NEED I GO ON" ?
American country also has Irish roots and Cajun (French Canadian) roots (and probably Scottish and English too). Kid Rock crossed over to country with Sheryl Crow and nobody lost their minds. I for one am really curious to hear the Beyonce take on country. I've been listening to a lot of the old "classic country" at my mother's house lately and it reminded me that almost all of today's country music is so different than that music from the 60"s and 70's -- things change - music and everything else evolves.
Nobody ever mentions the influence Mexicans had in their culture. Obviously the cowboy culture is not anglo it is strictly mexican created by mestizos 😂 I swear to god anglo's and afro Saxons Are the biggest culture vultures on the planet😂
Well, personally I would think if there's anyone that could pull off a country album it would be her. I do like what I heard of it. But, I do recognize why she's being rejected. Is it a race issue? Very possible. I'm just not gonna hang my hat on it just yet😎
I agree - I believe it is a race issue.@@ReshonBryant
@@magdemighty8369 I'm just saying it could be. I'm not entirely convinced yet. Darius Rucker hasn't really caused a stir. I'm also quite aware bigots love country music. Bigots as in people we traditionally deem as rednecks, hicks, and hillbillies. Aka Whites.
To add to my own comment -- in keeping with the idea of America as a melting pot, I think that can be seen especially in its music -- American country music in particular.
Great segment!!!
Yooo!!! It is ART!! It is space for all of us!
True That The Uniqueness of American Music! The Blending of life's experiences in song and music! Truly Amazing Grace! ❤❤❤🎵🎶❤☮️