Music of Georgia (U.S. state)
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Music institutions
The state's official music museum is the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, located in Macon, Georgia from 1996 until it closed in 2011. Colleges such as the University of Georgia and Columbus State University have extensive music departments.
Indigenous music
Folk music
Georgia's folk musical traditions include important contributions to the Piedmont blues, shape note singing, and African-American music.
African American folk music
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The Georgia Sea Island Singers are an important group in modern African American folk music in Georgia. They perform worldwide the Gullah/Geechee music of the Georgia coast and Sea Islands, and have been touring since the early 1900s; the folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax discovered the Singers on a 1959-60 collecting trip and helped to bring their music to new audiences. The Georgia Sea Island Singers have included Bessie Jones, Emma Ramsey, John Davis, Mayble Hillery, and Peter Davis.[2][3]
Fife and drum blues has been documented in west central Georgia.
Multi-instrumentalist Abner Jay, born in Fitzgerald, performed eccentric blues-infused folk music as a one-man band.
Shape-note
The
American folk music revival
Folksinger/songwriter Hedy West, active in the American folk music revival and famous for her song "500 Miles", was born in Cartersville.
Popular music
Country
In Atlanta, on June 14, 1923, the country music recording industry was launched when Fiddlin' John Carson made his first phonograph record for Okeh Records Company representative Polk C. Brockman. Carson's recordings of "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" and "The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going to Crow" sold over 500,000 copies and opened the eyes of record company executives to the market for "old-time" country music. Along with Carson, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers and Georgia Yellow Hammers made Atlanta and North Georgia an early center of old-time string band music.
In the 1960s, guitarist
Blues
Jazz
Rhythm and blues
Rock
The earliest Atlanta-based music maven, Bill Lowery, started the careers of Ray Stevens, Joe South, Jerry Reed, and countless others, and created the first Georgia-based springboard for such talent, National Recording Corporation, sporting not only a record label, but a recording studio and pressing plant. Lowery would later work with the likes of Billy Joe Royal, Mac Davis, Dennis Yost & The Classics IV, and The Atlanta Rhythm Section, giving Atlanta national relevance with his Lowery Music group of publishing companies, one of the world's biggest music publishers. Noted session and touring drummer, Michael Huey, started his career at Bill Lowery studios.
Tommy Roe, from Atlanta, had 2 #1 Hot 100 hits, including "Dizzy" in 1969.
The city of
Acoustic rock/folk duo the
Georgia has contributed to the ska scene with the bands Treephort, 50:50 Shot, and The Taj Motel Trio. Ska punk has seen a recent revival in Georgia with the regional ska festival, the Mass Ska Raid, taking place for the first time in 2008.
Along with Louisiana and the rest of the Southern area, there is a strong heavy metal music scene in Georgia, with bands such as Mastodon (had a #6 album on the Billboard 200 in 2014), Baroness, Collective Soul, Royal Thunder, Black Tusk, Kylesa, Withered, Sevendust, ISSUES, Norma Jean, and Attila. Thrash metal band Tetrarch are from Atlanta, as is black metal band Cloak.
Neon Christ are a notable band from the Atlanta Hardcore scene.
Several Christian rock musicians have come out of Georgia, including Amy Grant, who was born in Augusta, Third Day (had a #6 album on the Billboard 200 in 2008), Casting Crowns (had 2 #2 albums on the Billboard 200, in 2007 and 2011), Bebo Norman, and Family Force 5.
Cat Power (Chan Marshall) was born in Atlanta and got her start there.
The 2000s saw the rise of Atlanta
Pop rock singer songwriter Phillip Phillips, who won the eleventh season of American Idol in 2012, was born in Albany. He had a #4 album on the Billboard 200 in 2012.
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Hip hop
Atlanta-based
There have been several Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles in the genre:
Additional notable musicians from Georgia include: "
Classical
Notable Georgian classical groups include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Chamber Players, the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Opera, the Georgia Boy Choir, the Atlanta Boy Choir, Georgia Symphony Orchestra, New Trinity Baroque, the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet, and the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, as well as symphonies in the cities of Columbus, Macon, Augusta, and Savannah.
The Great American Songbook
See also
References
- "The Sacred Harp". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
- "McIntosh County Shouters". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
- "Georgia Sea Island Singers". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
- The McIntosh County Shouters The group
- "Fiddlin' John Carson". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
Notes
- ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: McIntosh County Shouters
- ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia Sea Island Singers
- ^ "Geechee and Gullah Culture | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Sacred Harp
- ^ Buell Cobb, The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989), 7.
- ^ "About the Company | The Sacred Harp Publishing Company". Originalsacredharp.com. 2015-05-28. Archived from the original on 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 194–196.
- ^ Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith, 278.
- ^ "Blues Music: Overview | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Swing Music: Overview | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "James Moody (1925-2010) | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. 2013-11-15. Archived from the original on 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Joe Williams (1918-1999) | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. 2013-11-15. Archived from the original on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. 2013-11-14. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Roland Hayes (1887-1977) | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. 2013-11-14. Archived from the original on 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Mattiwilda Dobbs (b. 1925) | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. 2013-11-14. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Georgia's Jamie Barton Awarded Prestigious Opera Prize". WABE. 2015-04-28. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ^ "Hall Johnson (1888-1970) | New Georgia Encyclopedia". Georgiaencyclopedia.org. 2013-11-14. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
External links
- North Georgia Bluegrass
- Georgia Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Links
- North Georgia BlueGrass Chronicles
- Georgia's Music
- Georgia Boy Choir
