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Georgia's musical output includes Southern rap groups like Outkast and Goodie Mob, as well as a wide variety of rock, pop and country artists. The music of Athens, Georgia, is especially well-known for a kind of quirky college rock that has included such well-known bands as R.E.M. and The B-52s. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... The United States is home to a wide array of regional styles and scenes. ... Alaska is a state of the United States. ... Alabama has played a central role in the development of both blues and country music. ... Arkansas is a Southern state of the United States. ... The Samoas are a Polynesian island chain, currently divided between the independent state of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa) and an American territory called American Samoa. ... Arizonas musical history has been heavily influenced by Mexican immigrants. ... 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Pylon at Athfest 2005

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Music institutions

The state's official music museum is the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, located in Macon, Georgia. Colleges such as the University of Georgia and Columbus State University have extensive music departments. Macon is a city located in central Georgia. ...

Folk music

Georgia's folk musical traditions include important contributions to the Piedmont blues, shape note singing and African American music. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings. ... Shape notes are a system of music notation designed to facilitate congregational singing. ... African American music (also called black music, formerly known as race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States. ...

African American folk music

The "ring shout" is an African American musical and dance tradition that is among the oldest surviving African American performance styles in North America. The ring shout tradition is rare in the modern Southern United States, but it still found in McIntosh County, Georgia, where black communities have kept the style alive. The McIntosh County ring shout is a counterclockwise ring dance featuring clapping and stick-beating percussion with call-and-response vocals. The ring shout tradition is strongest in Boldon, Georgia (also known as Briar Patch), where it is traditionally performed on New Year's Eve ^[1]. McIntosh County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... A clap is the sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals. ... Call and response is a form of spontaneous verbal and non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (calls) are punctuated by expressions (responses) from the listener, as stated by Smitherman [1]. In West African cultures, call and response is a pervasive pattern of democratic... The quality of this article or section may be compromised by peacock terms. You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. ...

Bessie Jones

The Georgia Sea Island Singers are an important group in modern African American folk music in Georgia. They perform worldwide the Gullah music of the Georgia coast, 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, Maybel Hillary and Peter Davis ^[2]. Image File history File linksMetadata Bessie_jones. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Bessie_jones. ... Jones in 1959 Bessie Jones, 1902-1984, Gospel singer from the Georgia Sea Islands. ... Lomax playing guitar, sometime between 1938 and 1950 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. ... Jones in 1959 Bessie Jones, 1902-1984, Gospel singer from the Georgia Sea Islands. ... John Davis is the name of several persons: John Davis (1550?-1605), an English navigator and explorer. ... For the Mayor of Melbourne 1856–57, see Peter Davis (Mayor of Melbourne), for the husband of Helen Clark see Peter Davis (New Zealand). ...

Shape-note

The Sacred Harp, first published in 1844, was compiled and produced by Georgians Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J. King. The helped establish a singing tradition also known as Sacred Harp, as well as fasola and shape note. The Sacred Harp system use notes expressed with shapes, intended to make it easy for people to learn to sight-read music and performed complex pieces without a lot of training ^[3]. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that took root in the Southern region of the United States. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Benjamin Franklin White (September 20, 1800 - December 5, 1879) was a shape note singing master, and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp. ...

Popular Music

Rock

The city of Athens, Georgia, home to the University of Georgia has been a fertile field for alternative rock bands since the late 1970s. Notable bands from Athens include R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Drive By Truckers, and The B-52s. R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in early 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and vocalist Michael Stipe. ... Widespread Panic is a southern rock band from Athens, Georgia. ... The B-52s are a rock band from Athens, Georgia, the first of many from the college town that has become one of the most important centers in alternative rock. ...

Rock pianist Elton John spends sometime living in Atlanta. Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE[1][2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ...

Country

Country music superstars such as Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, and Travis Tritt are natives of Georgia. Other successful country music singers from Georgia include Billy Currington and up and coming star Jason Aldean.

Classical

Opera singer Jessie Norman is native to Agusta. Famous music director Robert Shaw spent much of his time living in Atlanta directing the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Notable musical groups include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Opera, as well as symphonies in the cities of Columbus, Macon, Agusta, and Savannah.

See also

List of musicians from Georgia

References

• The Sacred Harp. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2 December, 2005.
• McIntosh County Shouters. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2 December, 2005.
• Georgia Sea Island Singers. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2 December, 2005.

Notes

1. ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: McIntosh County Shouters
2. ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia Sea Island Singers
3. ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Sacred Harp

External links

• Georgia Music Hall of Fame
• South Georgia Folklife Project
• North Georgia Bluegrass
• Georgia Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Links
• North Georgia BlueGrass Chronicles
• Georgia's Music