Country Roots

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Do curso por The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

O sul da América: história, música e arte

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

O sul da América: história, música e arte

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From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.

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Roots Music

Exploring Southern music and its roots in work chants, fife and drum, and one-strand on the wall music.

One-Strand on the Wall4:43

Country Roots7:54

Fife and Drum4:34

Sacred Harp3:33

"Our Father"2:43

Work Chants5:49

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Dr. William Ferris
Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History; Senior Associate Director of CSAS; Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore
Department of History

[MUSIC]

When we think of roots music in the South, the white tradition of old time country,

of the ballad, of bluegrass, all are very important.

Old time country evolved from instruments like the fiddle the guitar.

Instruments that were very familiar in the British Isles and Scotland and Ireland.

And we see old-time country evolving from its earliest sounds in the deep south.

And we can see how today it's being embraced and celebrated

by the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who are a wonderful new set of voices

who bring the old-time country music to contemporary audiences.

The bluegrass sound takes the instruments of the banjo,

originally an African instrument, the fiddle, and

the guitar, and the mandolin and blends those into

the fastest and most hard-hitting country music sound ever.

And Alan Lomax once called bluegrass country music on steroids.

And when we hear the music of artists like Tommy Edwards, we can see the power,

the speed, and the beauty of bluegrass music.

The ballad is a wonderful link to the British Isles.

The British ballads in England, Ireland, and

Scotland, our much beloved ballads like Barbara Allen.

Those ballads crossed the Atlantic and

continued to be sung in the American South.

There were other ballads that were created in the South,

like John Henry, Casey Jones, The Wreck of the Old 97.

The ballad is a wonderful way to capture a story.

It's the nature of a ballad to tell a story with a beginning,

a middle, and an end.

And one of my dearest and

most wonderful friends who sang the ballad was Ola Belle Reed.

She and her husband would come to my classes and

teach my students, much as BB King

had taught those students the blues, they would teach my students the ballads.

And she created ballads and sang them in a powerful, wonderful way.

Start it of on there, mm-hm.

[MUSIC]

They were roaming in the gloaming while the roses were in bloom.

Just a soldier and his sweetheart, fond and true.

Their hearts were filled with sorrow

while their thoughts were of the morrow,

as she pinned a rose upon his coat of blue.

That's the only place.

Do not ask me love to linger for

you know not what you say.

For the country calls soldier to the fray.

You know I hate to leave you, but I know I have to go.

But I'll be with you when the roses bloom again.

When the roses bloom again beside the river.

And the robin red breast sings her sweet refrain.

As in days of auld lang syne, I'll be with you, sweetheart mine.

I'll be with you when the roses bloom again.

[MUSIC]

It's the rattle of the battle,

came and whispered soft and low.

For the soldier boy had fallen in the fray.

I am dying Captain, dying and

I know I have to go, but I would

have you promise ere I pass away.

Now there's a far and

distant river where the roses bloom so fast.

There's a maiden waiting for me all in vain.

It is there I'd have you take me,

I've been faithful, don't forsake me,

for I must be there when the roses bloom again.

When the roses bloom again beside the river,

and the robin red breast sings her sweet refrain.

As in days of auld lang syne I'll be with you sweetheart mine.

I'll be with you

when the roses bloom again.

So, blue grass, the ballad, and old-time country music,

are roots sounds for the modern country music and for

the musics that we look at as the great legacy of the American South.

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