Is bluegrass American folk music?

Sure, why not

>>1789879
Yes, it has strong connections to the 'old-time' music of Appalachia which in turn derives from the folk music of immigrants from Britain.

>>1789879
No, it's the popular commercialization of Appalachian folk, commonly called Old Time country music

No.

>>1789952
To elaborate on this, bluegrass is kind of like blues in that emerged somewhat recently and ended up taking the place of the original folk traditions in a number of places. It's heavily influenced by older folk music (Old Time), but does a number of things differently, has a few different influences, and ended up being spread differently (radio was a major influence on its spread).

So, it's related to American folk music, but it's not really the same thing.

>>1789879

yes. Although country music is a horrible frankenstein monster of pandering bullshit now


Sturgill Simpson is the only contemporary one thats any good

Well done /his/!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_music#Origin_of_name

>Exactly when the word "bluegrass" itself was adopted to label this form of music is not certain, but is believed to be in the late 1950s.[14] It was derived from the name of the seminal Blue Grass Boys band, formed in 1939 with Bill Monroe as its leader. Due to this lineage, Bill Monroe is frequently referred to as the "father of bluegrass".[15]

>Ralph Stanley

>Oh, (Monroe) was the first. But it wasn't called bluegrass back then. It was just called old time mountain hillbilly music. When they started doing the bluegrass festivals in 1965, everybody got together and wanted to know what to call the show, y'know. It was decided that since Bill was the oldest man, and was from the bluegrass state of Kentucky and he had the Blue Grass Boys, it would be called 'bluegrass.'[17]

>>1791335
>mountain hillbilly music
The history of what various types of white folk and country music were called is actually pretty interesting itself. Before the 1950s, basically all of it was called hillbilly music. Country as a term didn't exist until an effort in the late 1940s to make the music seem more refined; it was also usually lumped together with western music (which doesn't really exist anymore, it was basically just cowboy songs). Bluegrass, which was a newer and more exiting form of hillbilly music, started to get popular in the mid to late 1930s. The reason folk music started getting called Old Time was that it was a convenient way to distinguish newer bluegrass from the more old-fashioned traditional music, and stuff being played like it. Oh Brother Where Art Thou actually gets that surprisingly correct when the main characters go to a recording studio and the sound engineer asks if they play "old timey" music, because in 1937 bluegrass would have been more known to most audiences.

>>1791683
>Oh Brother Where Art Thou actually gets that surprisingly correct when the main characters go to a recording studio and the sound engineer asks if they play "old timey" music, because in 1937 bluegrass would have been more known to most audiences.
Right on! Good observation.

That is some decent Hollywood historical accuracy...for a change.

>>1791822
That's the Coens for ya

sounds irish desu

>>1791683
>which doesn't really exist anymore,
art music still exists though