Arthur Drayton Anderson And His History With Mass Media

Hank Snow was a popular and important musical artist, active before 1960, who is not included in the Dalhousie University 2017 - 2018 Popular Music until 1960 course. Hank Snow’s, “country standard I’m Movin’ On, a twelve-bar blues, came out before 1960. ” In this paper I will argue that Hank Snow and his song I’m Movin’ On must be a required listening in this course as he has had historical significance, has influenced musical artists (several that are covered in this course) and most importantly he is a Nova Scotia native with a successful musical country career on an international scale. I will provide relevant background information on Hank Snow as well as proof of his importance in the areas of historical significance, musical influence

The Progressive Era was between the 1890’s to the 1920’s and had a wide impact on America. A very big part of this era was the media and journalists. The two combined brought to light on many issues in America that the average citizen had no idea of, which changed the country in a variety of ways. However, not everything the media did had positive feedback. Media during the progressive era affected the country in both positive and negative ways.

Charlie Pride did it in 1971. Darius Rucker did it in 2009. That’s it. Two black men, spanning thirty-eight years, are the only black artists to win a Country Music Association Award. With country music rooted in bluegrass and rhythm and blues, why aren’t there more black country music stars? When considering the roots of country music, and how closely related country is to blues, bluegrass and honky tonk music, an examination of what happened to all the black musicians seems warranted, no? This paper examines the dearth of black artists in country music and the careers of one of the few black artists who has had commercial success in this genre of music.

Originally named The Muleskinners, The Hamilton County Bluegrass band was founded by a group of university students in Auckland in 1962.[9] For the young members, their first encounter with bluegrass would be the theme song “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” from the television show The Beverly Hillbillies. The show was one of the few American shows airing on New Zealand television at the time. The Flatt and Scruggs theme tune and Scruggs style banjo influenced player Paul Trenwith, who said “that’s how I wanted to learn banjo, and we found out there was a whole music genre that went with that, so we chased that up.”[10] Television was one of the key ways that the bluegrass genre was and still is transmitted internationally. The dominance of

“Hillbilly music,” “the high, lonesome sound,” and “old-time string band music,” have all been used to describe bluegrass, though none of these terms is quite

A number of years ago, I performed for the Williamson County Historical Society in Nolensville, Tennessee. The primary speaker at the event was Larry Hicklen, owner of the Civil War relic store Yesteryear, which is near Stones River National Battlefield. He was discussing Nolensville’s involvement in the Civil War. He encouraged me to visit his store, as well as the battlefield. Unfortunately, as a college student, my free time is limited. Therefore, I found few opportunities to visit either location. I took this assignment as a chance to visit the battlefield, having previously been to the Carter House, the Hermitage, and Sam Davis’ Home, being well familiar with the last of these locations due to my having performed Civil War-era music there numerous times.

Hank Williams was the most significant figure to emerge in country music during the immediate post World War II period.(Starr Pg. 237) Country music is a genre that came from the United states in the 1920s from the southeastern area. Most of it’s origin comes from folk music and many of the instruments that were used to play country music back in the day were a banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin, or an auto harp. Country music also happened to be one of the first genres of modern American popular music. Hank Williams also known as Hiram King Willams was born in Mount Olive, Alabama on September 17, 1923. When Hank was around eight years old he was given his first guitar and started to take music lessons from blues singer Rugus Payne also known as Tee Tot. After learning how to write his own songs and play the guitar

James King has established himself as a well-known bluegrass performer. In the 1980s, King was originally a member of the Clinch Mountain Boys. With living in Virginia, he grew up listening to bluegrass. His father, Jim King, and uncle, Joe Edd King, were both prominent vocalists throughout the bluegrass genre. Once James King partnered with Rounder Records, his career took off. Each of his songs in the album, The Bluegrass Storyteller, tell a specific song with their music and lyrics.

Many music histories recount Peer’s disgust and disregard for the country and hillbilly musicians he produced, published, and managed in the 1920s and 1930s. Specifically, with regard to Peer’s description of the first country music recording by Fiddlin’ John Carson as nothing short of “pluperfect awful.” Again, in American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, authors Starr and Waterman claim, “Peer apparently had no inkling of the commercial potential of Carson’s fiddle playing and singing on songs such as ‘The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane’ and ‘The Old Hen Cackled and The Rooster’s Going to Crow,’ which Peer later described as ‘pluperfect awful.’” Again, the Starr and Waterman text lacks a citation as to the source of this quote or event. Perhaps, it is because they viewed this as an accepted and commonly held fact since it can be found in dozens of other works and in the interpretive signage at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol. Barry Mazor in his 2015 Peer biography sought for the lineage and veracity of this long held

In the early 1880’s, Scott Joplin traveled as a teen musician and played in many bars. Throughout this time, Joplin spent many days Sedalia’s Lincoln High School. After a few years, Joplin traveled to Chicago for the World Fair. While there, Joplin fronted a band as a cornet player and met Otis Saunders. Saunders begun to inspire the idea of Joplin’s works being publicized. In 1894, Joplin moved back to Sedalia, Missouri and joined the Queen City Cornet Band. With this, and many other groups, Joplin traveled the country and played at various clubs.

Appalachian music changed after the 1920’s to more of what those outside Appalachian music liked about the music. Appalachian music was no longer the name for the music of this area and Hillbilly music came about for the commercial spread of Appalachian music (Malone, 1994). With the commercial spread of Appalachian music as Hillbilly music gave a way for the music to transform and continue to make new songs (Malone,

Song examples are “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” and “I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry.” Bluegrass music derives from musical styles brought over from Scotland, Ireland, and England by immigrants in the 1600s. It is also influenced by gospel and R&B music. Topics are about rural living, love, and religious matters.

One of the greatest revolutions in the twentieth century was not political in nature, however, it aided in many different political revolutions. This revolution was the communications revolution. The twentieth century has experienced one of the greatest changes in means of communication including technologies such as radio, motion pictures, the Internet, advanced communications and most importantly the television. Sadly, political leaders and the government to convince or persuade the masses that their ideas supercede those of others have utilized these technologies.

The media and advertising hinder do indeed hinder our being fully human. Mass media including radio, television and newspapers endeavors to shape public opinion on a variety of things. The media attempts to manipulate those values instilled by parents and society in general, thus taking away from our being human. Messages designed to influence peoples’ attitudes, desires and decisions fall upon society urging those people to buy a certain product, vote for a certain political figure, or support a “worthy” cause. The daily attack of media and advertising persuade the public to be one and the same, rather than allowing them to function as humans who follow their own beliefs.

New media has emerged from the print media. But its target audience is different from that of print media. Today, we have young readers getting attracted towards new media. This is because they feel that they really don’t need to waste their time reading when they