I have already uploaded several videos about Appalachian music: The first ever video of Appalachian music (1928) | "Doggett Gap" - Bascom Lamar Lunsford th-cam.com/video/EVxjnXEEBnU/w-d-xo.html Appalachian Ballad Singing (1969) | Dillard Chandler, Dellie Norton, Berzilla Wallin th-cam.com/video/11id9wkfvwI/w-d-xo.html Appalachian musician George Landers performs old ballad "The Scotland Man" (c.1960s) th-cam.com/video/TR-jlH7Qs3A/w-d-xo.html I have also restored and uploaded several rare videos of the Appalachian ballad singer and dulcimer player Jean Ritchie (who appears in this video at 4:48): th-cam.com/video/phseXZaPoo8/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/SCbNTbJKqMI/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/piV-BGDHLF4/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/TMBqoeCTcQE/w-d-xo.html It's worth noting that I've heard a kind of "yodel" sound in traditional Irish language folk music which is VERY similar to the Appalachian "vocal feathering" heard at 9:44. Listen to this recording from 1930: doegen.ie/LA_1130g2 I also found this Portuguese recording (go to 14:35) th-cam.com/video/4SU-HpKkSZo/w-d-xo.html
@@lady_sir_knight3713 No I haven't, but now you mention it I agree it seems likely that she comes from one of those communities! Sorry for the late response.
I thought the Appalachian music came from the escaped indentured British slaves, mostly Irish with a bit of French. I know gospel music comes from the Scotch and Irish.
Do be aware of placement of text boxes in the same spots where the "pause" video text blocks reading it. Center the text where the cc's usually go, above the progress time bar so we can pause and read your hard scholarship essays, thanks.
As much as this music represents a history of human suffering in various forms, something truly magical happened when Anglo-celtic folk and West African folk came together.
what a great video :) it's amazing how much is still unknown as to how oral traditions grew and evolved, and how so many different cultures came together like that i really liked the clips of the norwegian dulcimer, the clyde maxwell one and the african mouth bow :)
The area owes much to its remoteness. The decades follwing the Civil War is when Appalachia became a national center of art & culture. Its seclusion spared it from much of the post war changes to the country and the culture flourished.
There is a great album by Damon Albarn called 'Mali music' I highly recommend to hear African folk. For me the Appalachian sound is very olde English, Scots and Irish, not sure I believe the African link ... all these string instruments really go back to the Greek Lyre
@thefolkrevivalproject Lovely showing the roots of music. It’s a shame when people are triggered and disturbed to learn that American culture and music as we know it was and continues to be deeply influenced by people who don’t share their complexion.
The southern Appalachians did pick up the banjo from Africa. The northern Appalachians did not use the banjo. Bill Monroe also said that the blues were part of bluegrass. This influence was added to music that came straight from Scotch Irish origins. We "Americanized" it. Lol
I have looked into this and one or two strings strung on a gourd is NOT a banjo. You have to remember that the Arabs were making incursions into Sub-Sahara Africa from centuries and they introduced some writing and other things along their trade routes. Also, the Arabs and Romans had routes by sea along the east coast of Sub-Sahara Africa. The Arabs are a Semitic people. The Israelites (also a Semitic people) had advanced instruments in 1000 BC, as did other "Cradle of Civilization" (the "Fertile Crescent") people groups. Music goes back an awful long way but most just settle for scratching the surface and drawing wrong conclusions.
@JimDeferio You are right. My friend, King David, played a harp and an"instument of ten strings". Lol. I've heard, though, that the word "banjo" is African.
@@philiprose7942 Africa is a continent with many different nations, ethnicities/tribes and races. All of North Africa has historically been white and linked to Europe and the Levant, while the Khoisan (Capoid) and Pygmies occupied much of Sub-Sahara Africa until the Bantu (Negroid or Congoid) Internal Colonization (now referred to euphemistically as "The Bantu Migration") of most of Sub-Sahara Africa. East Africa was a mix of people from the Levant and some who migrated from western Africa. THAT is the problem when saying something is "African" but most people use that expression... Same goes for "Asia" or "Asian". Europe was more racially homogenous though extremely diverse ethnically and culturally.
@@JimDeferio Negroid (less commonly called Congoid) is an obsolete racial grouping of various people indigenous to Africa south of the area which stretched from the southern Sahara desert in the west to the African Great Lakes in the southeast,[1] but also to isolated parts of South and Southeast Asia (Negritos).[2] The term is derived from now-disproven conceptions of race as a biological category.[3]
GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS !!!!! JUST AS I SUSPECTED !!!!!! APPALACHIAN MUSIC CAME FROM POOR , SUFFERING PEOPLE WITH AN UNQUENCHABLE thirst for SOMETHING MUCH BETTER ......🌅🌅🌅
The source for "Uncle Joe" as a lyric was probably a caller at a square dance calling "do-si-do" - a dance move derived ultimately from the French "dos a dos" - back to back - to the McCloud tune, and then someone inventing words to sing along - turning do-si-do to Uncle Joe. Brilliant video - I the way you go from source to source showing the links
Absolutely amazing! I had no idea of all the musical connections and overlap of different peoples and cultures that became Appalachian music. Incredible! Thank you for your thorough research and wonderful presentation!
There are many different variations between Scotish and Irish folk songs. Mcleod's Reel cant be deemed Scottish. It could be Scottish or Irish. A good example I can give is "Come and join the British Army" by the Dubliners. And "If it wasn't for the unions" by Hamish Imlach.
07:43 I wonder why I, a European male from Ukraine, feel this with ma bones and soul. It's rather "proto blues," the blues scale, 12-bar blues. I feel it. FEEL IT.
I've listened yodel in Japanese(arr) Irish music when I was 16 y.o. I felt something strange like"why yodel...??" but suddenly make a sence why the composer selected and used it. I guess he knows background and connections of music.
Lowland Scottish and Northern English were the main influences (those are the regions the "Scots-Irish" mostly came from before settling Northern Ireland.)
NOBODY IN THIS WORLD WILL BE ABLE TO CONVINCE ME THAT BLACK AFRICANS did not have anything SUBSTANTIAL to do with APPALACHIAN MUSIC : BORN AND RAISED IN NEW ORLEANS , AND STICKING TO MY GUNS .... LONG LIVE BLUEGRASS !!!!!
Musicologist and composer, Howard Goodall, who has done music documentaries for PBS, and who has done numerous music documentaries for the BBC, says that the blues had its origin in Celtic music and he can prove it. His documentaries, except one which you have to pay for, are still available, I think, on TH-cam for free.
@@JimDeferioi will watch it, eventhough i already know saying blues is only from celtic music is completely false... i don't realise how one could be too ignorant to deny the African influence.
@@JimDeferio i'm dutch, i speak 2 languages, do you? You didn't add anything. I just thinks its incredibly lazy to look at one academic and then cross out any African influence in blues music. Clearly you don't have a scientific background, because then you would know how one-sided and confined academic conclusions can be. My advice to you, stay neutral in something like and don't disregard something based on inherently racist academics. Provide your sources and share your opinion, but don't take conclusions too fast. I can refer to Gerhard Kubik, also an academic, who has other claims, so who wins here?
@@destindh "African" influence? A whole continent??? Wow! LOL You also PRESUME falsely. I have studied this issue and have done some of my own research such as tracing the blues song "O Death" back to its origin.. This whole argument is over music that is extremely simple and of little importance. It's not like discussing Bach or the modern day composers who do movie sores! (Although I have come across some really tricky Turlough O'Carolan tunes!)
The more I argued with them, the better I came to know their dialectic. First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid. If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about. Whenever you tried to attack one of these apostles, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again. But if you really struck one of these fellows so telling a blow that, observed by the audience, he couldn't help but agree, and if you believed that this had taken you at least one step forward, your amazement was great the next day. The j*w had not the slightest recollection of the day before, he rattled off his same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affected amazement; he couldn't remember a thing, except that he had proved the correctness of his assertions the previous day. Sometimes I stood there thunderstruck. I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying. Gradually I began to hate them
It is based on the lyre and no doubt on other instruments mentioned in the Bible. The ancient Israelites had a whole assortment of musical instruments from stringed instruments to horns and flutes. Ancient Israel and their next door neighbors, the Phoenicians, sailed to numerous places (the Phoenicians even went for tin up to the British isles BC (Before Christ). Look it up yourself. This video barely scratches the surface of music history and it is wrong about American Indian and African influences. You have to go back much farther...
Lol bluegrass didn't come from Africa. Not everything comes from Africa Lol The banjo would be based off the Chinese Pipa. Bluegrass/folk instrumentation has greater connections to China than anywhere else. But, I'm an ethnomusicologist, I see what I do. And the fact there's a folk Chinese counterpart for every bluegrass/folk instrument used haha Violin-erhu Banjo-pipa Guitar-gushin[?] "Chinese guitar" Mando- smaller gushin Bass- bass erhu[has a name like buhu] Actual ancient/early instruments, not modern constructs. Fun stuff. Ancient China influenced a lot back then, just like Ancient Greece.
You probably suffer from academic narrow-mindedness. You make up your professional narratives from a inherently flawed pool of source material. I guess acedemic disciplines in history are more likely to suffer biased beliefs. Of course this is your line of work, how could you possibly be wrong or ingorant about certain historical notions when you spend so much time researching it. Step out of your box. Lets have a chat.
This is typical Afrocentric propaganda as usual. The folk music is in most cases basically directly from the European source, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Africa. The old folksong collectors found very old European folk songs there directly passed down over generations. The instruments are all European. And even the 'banjo' has little to do with a gourd and a stick, is actually European guitar technology with a superficial resemblance to primitive African instruments that are incapable of playing European folk.
I love that this video is educating people to the reality of how new folk forms emerged in North America via cultural exchange, and in so doing, is making you very upset. Because of your comment, I'm going to spend tomorrow finding ways to foster multiculturalism in my community, and there's nothing you can do about it.
If you think that American (especially Appalachian) folk sounds anything like European folk you must be tone deaf. Yes, there are ballads and sometimes melodies that are transmitted from Europe. But that doesn't account for everything in a musical style. Also holy shit, African banjos are not "gords and sticks;" they're complex instruments with drone strings and goatskin resonators. It's these two innovations that African slaves brought to the Americas. Plus guitars are not even European but were developed in the Middle East and brought to Europe by the Moors...i.e., North Africans.
@geniewiley4217 you are being ridiculous. There a re literally hundreds of Scottish and English ballads that date back to 17th and 18th centuries that are found in appalachia.
@@TheFolkRevivalProject What's ironic or really unexpected is I went to his channel and he's a far left political ideologue. I really didn't expect that.
@@anthonypuccetti8779 The British folk tradition has a very strong influence on the Appalachian tradition to be sure; but listen to appalachian music; there are sounds and elements entirely alien to British folk music, that's African influence, you don't need to be a purist with regard musical traditions, it's immature and silly.
People need to understand that black slaves weren't put into the Appalachian areas. It is mountainous region without sugar plantains. The black population went there and mixed without prejudice.
This video shows a bunch of different folk traditions but you all seem to be hung up on the one that has to do with Black people, I wonder why that is? Anyway, apart from the instrumentation (which is a major part of the timbre of Appalachian music and structures it's harmonic and melodic content), the rhythmic style of Appalachia is clearly African and deeply contrasts with that of the British Isles. I'm guessing most of the people who are butthurt over a Black person shown playing a banjo here either don't play an instrument or haven't listened to African folk traditions.
@@geniewiley4217i second that, as soon as Africans come in the play a wall of impossibility is thrown up. I guess Americans, assuming most of them are American, still have deeply rooted imperialist thinking, making them unable to see Africans as cultured.
Honestly the theory that native americans influence in a sorta way in the appalachian singing makes me feel proud of being a mixed race guy. Native american culture DID have influence in american culture.
And as a guy that's not Native it makes me upset that this is so hard for people to accept. It should be logical. Like of course. African European Native Those are the people that were there, only logical that the music had influence from them.
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I have already uploaded several videos about Appalachian music:
The first ever video of Appalachian music (1928) | "Doggett Gap" - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
th-cam.com/video/EVxjnXEEBnU/w-d-xo.html
Appalachian Ballad Singing (1969) | Dillard Chandler, Dellie Norton, Berzilla Wallin th-cam.com/video/11id9wkfvwI/w-d-xo.html
Appalachian musician George Landers performs old ballad "The Scotland Man" (c.1960s)
th-cam.com/video/TR-jlH7Qs3A/w-d-xo.html
I have also restored and uploaded several rare videos of the Appalachian ballad singer and dulcimer player Jean Ritchie (who appears in this video at 4:48):
th-cam.com/video/phseXZaPoo8/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/SCbNTbJKqMI/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/piV-BGDHLF4/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/TMBqoeCTcQE/w-d-xo.html
It's worth noting that I've heard a kind of "yodel" sound in traditional Irish language folk music which is VERY similar to the Appalachian "vocal feathering" heard at 9:44. Listen to this recording from 1930: doegen.ie/LA_1130g2
I also found this Portuguese recording (go to 14:35) th-cam.com/video/4SU-HpKkSZo/w-d-xo.html
For the unidentified old woman at 9:08, have you tried looking into Amish and Mennonite communities in Tennessee? Her style of dress is distinctive.
@@lady_sir_knight3713 No I haven't, but now you mention it I agree it seems likely that she comes from one of those communities! Sorry for the late response.
@@lady_sir_knight3713 agreed
I thought the Appalachian music came from the escaped indentured British slaves, mostly Irish with a bit of French.
I know gospel music comes from the Scotch and Irish.
Do be aware of placement of text boxes in the same spots where the "pause" video text blocks reading it. Center the text where the cc's usually go, above the progress time bar so we can pause and read your hard scholarship essays, thanks.
Great stuff. It is one thing to read about the connections, but how much better it is to SEE and HEAR them.
Good work.
My new favorite You tube Channel. This is real, this is human. Thanks for creating this.
Wow. Thank you so much!
Yes! I have my next inspiration
What a wonderful presentation showing all these roots that made the melodious tree that is Mountain Music. Thanks for putting this together.
As much as this music represents a history of human suffering in various forms, something truly magical happened when Anglo-celtic folk and West African folk came together.
Thats not what happened
@@valuedCustomer2929 have you ever researched a thing in your life
@@valuedCustomer2929why not? Did Europens take all the credit?
My grandmother, who lived in southeast Georgia, danced exactly like that. She was born in the late 1880s.
I suddenly understand why bluegrass and the banjo in particular has always captivated my heart and soul so deeply.
The theory presented here is false but enjoy it if it feels good
@@valuedCustomer2929please explain why, explain why Europeans did everything and Africans did nothing to develop this music.
what a great video :)
it's amazing how much is still unknown as to how oral traditions grew and evolved, and how so many different cultures came together like that
i really liked the clips of the norwegian dulcimer, the clyde maxwell one and the african mouth bow :)
Thank you :)
Also, the banjo is only one of a few different instruments used in Appalachian music, like guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer, and others.
Wow, what an excellent video!!! It's incredible what I learned from this. You showed the connections between things really well
Excellent video, really well researched! Hope you keep posting content:)
Thank you! I'll keep posting as long as people keep watching :)
@@TheFolkRevivalProject love that!
The area owes much to its remoteness. The decades follwing the Civil War is when Appalachia became a national center of art & culture. Its seclusion spared it from much of the post war changes to the country and the culture flourished.
Who doesnt get the blues? Its a clear line throughout humanity, and its beautiful. Wonderful compilation! Amazing channel. Pkease keep at it
Thank you for the kind words :)
Excellent video, time well spent!!
There is a great album by Damon Albarn called 'Mali music' I highly recommend to hear African folk. For me the Appalachian sound is very olde English, Scots and Irish, not sure I believe the African link ... all these string instruments really go back to the Greek Lyre
@thefolkrevivalproject Lovely showing the roots of music. It’s a shame when people are triggered and disturbed to learn that American culture and music as we know it was and continues to be deeply influenced by people who don’t share their complexion.
The southern Appalachians did pick up the banjo from Africa. The northern Appalachians did not use the banjo. Bill Monroe also said that the blues were part of bluegrass. This influence was added to music that came straight from Scotch Irish origins. We "Americanized" it. Lol
I have looked into this and one or two strings strung on a gourd is NOT a banjo. You have to remember that the Arabs were making incursions into Sub-Sahara Africa from centuries and they introduced some writing and other things along their trade routes. Also, the Arabs and Romans had routes by sea along the east coast of Sub-Sahara Africa. The Arabs are a Semitic people.
The Israelites (also a Semitic people) had advanced instruments in 1000 BC, as did other "Cradle of Civilization" (the "Fertile Crescent") people groups. Music goes back an awful long way but most just settle for scratching the surface and drawing wrong conclusions.
@JimDeferio You are right. My friend, King David, played a harp and an"instument of ten strings". Lol. I've heard, though, that the word "banjo" is African.
@@philiprose7942 Africa is a continent with many different nations, ethnicities/tribes and races. All of North Africa has historically been white and linked to Europe and the Levant, while the Khoisan (Capoid) and Pygmies occupied much of Sub-Sahara Africa until the Bantu (Negroid or Congoid) Internal Colonization (now referred to euphemistically as "The Bantu Migration") of most of Sub-Sahara Africa. East Africa was a mix of people from the Levant and some who migrated from western Africa.
THAT is the problem when saying something is "African" but most people use that expression...
Same goes for "Asia" or "Asian". Europe was more racially homogenous though extremely diverse ethnically and culturally.
@@JimDeferio Interesting. "African" is a broad term. You mention at least four different groups in sub-saharan Africa alone. Africa is HUGE landwise.
@@JimDeferio Negroid (less commonly called Congoid) is an obsolete racial grouping of various people indigenous to Africa south of the area which stretched from the southern Sahara desert in the west to the African Great Lakes in the southeast,[1] but also to isolated parts of South and Southeast Asia (Negritos).[2] The term is derived from now-disproven conceptions of race as a biological category.[3]
GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS !!!!! JUST AS I SUSPECTED !!!!!! APPALACHIAN MUSIC CAME FROM POOR , SUFFERING PEOPLE WITH AN UNQUENCHABLE thirst for SOMETHING MUCH BETTER ......🌅🌅🌅
The source for "Uncle Joe" as a lyric was probably a caller at a square dance calling "do-si-do" - a dance move derived ultimately from the French "dos a dos" - back to back - to the McCloud tune, and then someone inventing words to sing along - turning do-si-do to Uncle Joe.
Brilliant video - I the way you go from source to source showing the links
Ah that's very interesting. Thank you!
irish folk music african music had banjo but thats it
Where do you think the Celts got their instruments from?
Clue, it was the Moors in Galicia.
@@alfsmith4936now thats a delusional take
Absolutely amazing! I had no idea of all the musical connections and overlap of different peoples and cultures that became Appalachian music. Incredible! Thank you for your thorough research and wonderful presentation!
There are many different variations between Scotish and Irish folk songs. Mcleod's Reel cant be deemed Scottish. It could be Scottish or Irish. A good example I can give is "Come and join the British Army" by the Dubliners. And "If it wasn't for the unions" by Hamish Imlach.
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Wonderful! Glad to see Native Americans included, too. Thank you
07:43 I wonder why I, a European male from Ukraine, feel this with ma bones and soul. It's rather "proto blues," the blues scale, 12-bar blues. I feel it. FEEL IT.
I've listened yodel in Japanese(arr) Irish music when I was 16 y.o.
I felt something strange like"why yodel...??" but suddenly make a sence why the composer selected and used it.
I guess he knows background and connections of music.
Impossible to watch and read the tiny tiny text!!! Proofreading is the same as proof watching before submitting to publication!!!
Scot Irish mostly
Lowland Scottish and Northern English were the main influences (those are the regions the "Scots-Irish" mostly came from before settling Northern Ireland.)
Great vid
What a great way to explore our shared artistic heritage. Everything is a remix!
What the woman at 3:05 is doing reminds me of Irish lilting
Ireland and Scotland
very informative thank you
Wish I had been there.
Amazing video! What connections we all have :) Love this channel.
Please do a "Where did Cajun music come from?" video :)
I will definitely consider that, but I'll have to learn more about Cajun music and find some good videos to use first! Thanks for watching!
thank you so much!!
You're welcome! Feel free to have a look at some of my other videos!
Remi Diatta!
NOBODY IN THIS WORLD WILL BE ABLE TO CONVINCE ME THAT BLACK AFRICANS did not have anything SUBSTANTIAL to do with APPALACHIAN MUSIC : BORN AND RAISED IN NEW ORLEANS , AND STICKING TO MY GUNS .... LONG LIVE BLUEGRASS !!!!!
Musicologist and composer, Howard Goodall, who has done music documentaries for PBS, and who has done numerous music documentaries for the BBC, says that the blues had its origin in Celtic music and he can prove it. His documentaries, except one which you have to pay for, are still available, I think, on TH-cam for free.
@@JimDeferioi will watch it, eventhough i already know saying blues is only from celtic music is completely false... i don't realise how one could be too ignorant to deny the African influence.
@@destindh It is difficult to understand what you wrote. Ask someone proficient in English to help you. What country are you from?
@@JimDeferio i'm dutch, i speak 2 languages, do you? You didn't add anything. I just thinks its incredibly lazy to look at one academic and then cross out any African influence in blues music. Clearly you don't have a scientific background, because then you would know how one-sided and confined academic conclusions can be. My advice to you, stay neutral in something like and don't disregard something based on inherently racist academics. Provide your sources and share your opinion, but don't take conclusions too fast. I can refer to Gerhard Kubik, also an academic, who has other claims, so who wins here?
@@destindh "African" influence? A whole continent??? Wow! LOL
You also PRESUME falsely. I have studied this issue and have done some of my own research such as tracing the blues song "O Death" back to its origin..
This whole argument is over music that is extremely simple and of little importance. It's not like discussing Bach or the modern day composers who do movie sores!
(Although I have come across some really tricky Turlough O'Carolan tunes!)
Awesome thanks!
The more I argued with them, the better I came to know their dialectic. First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid. If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about. Whenever you tried to attack one of these apostles, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again. But if you really struck one of these fellows so telling a blow that, observed by the audience, he couldn't help but agree, and if you believed that this had taken you at least one step forward, your amazement was great the next day. The j*w had not the slightest recollection of the day before, he rattled off his same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affected amazement; he couldn't remember a thing, except that he had proved the correctness of his assertions the previous day. Sometimes I stood there thunderstruck. I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying. Gradually I began to hate them
Is this channel ok with having Hitler quotes in the comments?
WHEN AND WHERE DID THE DULCIMER COME IN ????? IT ALMOST SOUNDS ISLAMIC TO ME ?????
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@@jzonkel WOWZIE !!! THANKS FOR THE REPLY ....🌅🌅
It is based on the lyre and no doubt on other instruments mentioned in the Bible. The ancient Israelites had a whole assortment of musical instruments from stringed instruments to horns and flutes. Ancient Israel and their next door neighbors, the Phoenicians, sailed to numerous places (the Phoenicians even went for tin up to the British isles BC (Before Christ).
Look it up yourself. This video barely scratches the surface of music history and it is wrong about American Indian and African influences. You have to go back much farther...
remarkable connecting of the dots
Irish scot roots, what else?
A lot of Northern English also. Many of the settlers had roots there. (And some minor West African and German influence.)
Lol bluegrass didn't come from Africa. Not everything comes from Africa Lol
The banjo would be based off the Chinese Pipa. Bluegrass/folk instrumentation has greater connections to China than anywhere else. But, I'm an ethnomusicologist, I see what I do. And the fact there's a folk Chinese counterpart for every bluegrass/folk instrument used haha
Violin-erhu
Banjo-pipa
Guitar-gushin[?] "Chinese guitar"
Mando- smaller gushin
Bass- bass erhu[has a name like buhu]
Actual ancient/early instruments, not modern constructs.
Fun stuff. Ancient China influenced a lot back then, just like Ancient Greece.
You probably suffer from academic narrow-mindedness. You make up your professional narratives from a inherently flawed pool of source material. I guess acedemic disciplines in history are more likely to suffer biased beliefs. Of course this is your line of work, how could you possibly be wrong or ingorant about certain historical notions when you spend so much time researching it. Step out of your box. Lets have a chat.
This is typical Afrocentric propaganda as usual. The folk music is in most cases basically directly from the European source, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Africa. The old folksong collectors found very old European folk songs there directly passed down over generations. The instruments are all European. And even the 'banjo' has little to do with a gourd and a stick, is actually European guitar technology with a superficial resemblance to primitive African instruments that are incapable of playing European folk.
I love that this video is educating people to the reality of how new folk forms emerged in North America via cultural exchange, and in so doing, is making you very upset. Because of your comment, I'm going to spend tomorrow finding ways to foster multiculturalism in my community, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Source: Trust me bro.
If you think that American (especially Appalachian) folk sounds anything like European folk you must be tone deaf. Yes, there are ballads and sometimes melodies that are transmitted from Europe. But that doesn't account for everything in a musical style.
Also holy shit, African banjos are not "gords and sticks;" they're complex instruments with drone strings and goatskin resonators. It's these two innovations that African slaves brought to the Americas. Plus guitars are not even European but were developed in the Middle East and brought to Europe by the Moors...i.e., North Africans.
@@geniewiley4217 LOL. You need to seriously do a study on these things.
@geniewiley4217 you are being ridiculous. There a re literally hundreds of Scottish and English ballads that date back to 17th and 18th centuries that are found in appalachia.
From English, Scottish and Irish folk music, not from African tribal music.
From all of those things, according to every ethnomusicologist in the world.
@@TheFolkRevivalProject No they don't all say that.
@@anthonypuccetti8779 Please let me know of any reputable person who doesn't think African music had some influence on Appalachian music.
@@TheFolkRevivalProject What's ironic or really unexpected is I went to his channel and he's a far left political ideologue. I really didn't expect that.
@@anthonypuccetti8779 The British folk tradition has a very strong influence on the Appalachian tradition to be sure; but listen to appalachian music; there are sounds and elements entirely alien to British folk music, that's African influence, you don't need to be a purist with regard musical traditions, it's immature and silly.
People need to understand that black slaves weren't put into the Appalachian areas. It is mountainous region without sugar plantains. The black population went there and mixed without prejudice.
The music, no, the instrument, yes. Do better with your titling.
This video shows a bunch of different folk traditions but you all seem to be hung up on the one that has to do with Black people, I wonder why that is?
Anyway, apart from the instrumentation (which is a major part of the timbre of Appalachian music and structures it's harmonic and melodic content), the rhythmic style of Appalachia is clearly African and deeply contrasts with that of the British Isles. I'm guessing most of the people who are butthurt over a Black person shown playing a banjo here either don't play an instrument or haven't listened to African folk traditions.
@@geniewiley4217i second that, as soon as Africans come in the play a wall of impossibility is thrown up. I guess Americans, assuming most of them are American, still have deeply rooted imperialist thinking, making them unable to see Africans as cultured.
I can't understand what this video is trying to prove.Appalachian music has not to do with India and Africa.Ok, banjo it's African, so what?
You're contradicting your own racism, are you blind?
Honestly the theory that native americans influence in a sorta way in the appalachian singing makes me feel proud of being a mixed race guy. Native american culture DID have influence in american culture.
And as a guy that's not Native it makes me upset that this is so hard for people to accept. It should be logical. Like of course.
African
European
Native
Those are the people that were there, only logical that the music had influence from them.
Rewrite history all yall want lies are lies
Please could you be more specific?
I don't think so.
10:36 cool my friend!
Monkey see, Monkey do…the opposite is not true.
You're disgusting