mountain music
Hillbilly string bands
Mountain music is traditional folk music from the Appalachian region of the eastern United States, characterized by fiddles, banjos, and acoustic guitars.
The style blends Scots-Irish, English, and African American musical traditions, forming the roots of bluegrass and country music.
We drove through Kentucky listening to mountain music on the radio.
- bluegrassAcoustic Appalachian folk music
- banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
- fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
- dulcimerStringed percussion instrument
- shape-note singingNotation using geometric symbols
mandolin · Appalachia · storytelling · murder ballads · old-time · oral history · work songs · call and response · clawhammer · rural traditions · Blue Ridge Mountains · Smoky Mountains · Celtic influences · string bands · ballads · sawmill · yodeling · vocal harmonies
- Country Musichonky tonk, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, CMT, country pop
- folk musicfolk, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad, folk singers
- KentuckyLouisville, Lexington, Frankfort, Kentucky Derby, bourbon
- rural SouthBaptist church, dirt roads, gravel roads, backroads, country roads
- Bluegrassbanjo, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, flatpicking
- American Rootsblues, bluegrass, country, folk, jazz
mountain musicChicago blues
Amplified urban blues style
Motown · Detroit techno · New Orleans jazz · hip-hop · disco
mountain musicclassical music
Western orchestral tradition
orchestral music · art music · opera · chamber music · symphonic music
mountain musicelectronic music
Synthesizer-based musical genre
synth-pop · EDM · techno · house music · industrial music