1. Behind the “big bang”

Author(s):  
Richard Carlin

How did country music evolve? What were its antecedents? How did this unique style draw on different cultures to become a uniquely American creation? Behind the “big bang” explores how country music developed out of many different influences, and how this music was initially documented and received by scholars and folklorists, and performers and songwriters themselves. It also explores how selective aspects of these musical influences were used to market this music, particularly through new performance styles and music publishing. It begins with the ballads, dance, and religious music of Anglo-American traditions, before considering the influences of work songs and blues from the African American traditions.

Author(s):  
Jeff Place

This chapter details the curatorial decisions that defined thematic focus and scope, participant selection, and site design and organization for a 2003 program about Appalachian culture. The author recounts the challenges of organizing and fund-raising for a multi-state program in worsening financial times. He also describes how the Smithsonian worked with its partners, the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance and East Tennessee State University, to develop a program that demonstrated the breadth of Appalachian culture. These efforts dispelled many of the stereotypes that have historically plagued these communities


Boom's Blues ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Wim Verbei

This chapter details the Netherlands' introduction to African American blues music. Most people believe that that the Netherlands' first became acquainted with African American blues music in the second half of the 1960s, during the American Folk Blues Festivals (AFBFs). However, AFBF of 1965 was not the first blues concert in the Netherlands. That privilege fell to the guitarist/singer Big Bill Broonzy, who more than a decade earlier had conquered the Netherlands on his own. The chapter also describes the beginning of the Dutch blues era in 1926 and Amsterdammer Frans Boom's attendance of Duke Ellington concert in 1939.


2006 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
Tracey E. W. Laird ◽  
Charles K. Wolfe ◽  
Ted Olson
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  

2006 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 15-15
Author(s):  
D CASTELVECCHI
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  

Author(s):  
Abraham Loeb ◽  
Steven R. Furlanetto

This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the next few years will bring about a new generation of large telescopes that promise to supply a flood of data about the infant universe during its first billion years after the big bang. This book bridges the gap between theory and observation. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers on early galaxies. The book starts from basic physical principles before moving on to more advanced material. Topics include the gravitational growth of structure, the intergalactic medium, the formation and evolution of the first stars and black holes, feedback and galaxy evolution, reionization, 21-cm cosmology, and more.


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