Talk:Czech bluegrass

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Contents 1 Home-made instruments 2 Article title 3 Band names 4 Bluegrass social/musical impact

[edit] Home-made instruments

I think I recall seeing some eastern European home-made cold-war era instruments at the International Bluegrass Music Museum. Possibly the banjo Marko Čermak made? (I don't recall specific instruments.) Cmadler 15:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

where is the IBMM? btw - thanks for the diacritic help. I will do more editing, but have to leave the project for today... Blidgood 16:33, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

In downtown Owensboro, Kentucky. Here's the IBMM website (useless). [1] Cmadler 17:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. the panoramic quicktime zoomer is actually useful. you probably get most of the museum experience panning around in that thing... In the "50's diner" I see a "world bluegrass" section, and what looks like a 7 string banjo. huh. not Cermak's, but it seems like something similar. Thanks for the heads-up. the IBMM is fascinating. Blidgood 19:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Re; first line. I'm a bit confused by current version, is it like American in that it has a sound-a-like relationship or that it's because it's like roots music (or folk music)?, Need a shorter, succint definition, then first para to explain, I guess. Alf 19:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Removed "cleanup tag" after going through most links and checking, relinking. Re-wrote first line, you may want to keep at that. Readers need to know what the article is about in the first sentence, it's tricky having to refer to American bluegrass, consider leaving of the "emerged in south...." as correct link is now provided. Alf 22:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

As I was linking the Czech music article to this, I realized that this one is incorrectly named, "Czech Bluegrass" should be "Czech bluegrass" (wikipedia naming convention is that unless it is a proper noun, which this is not, only the first letter of the first work should be capitalized). I don't know how to fix this. (Move content to the correct page and then make this a redirect?) Cmadler 00:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Band names

"Rangers" and "Plavci" are two names of the same band, so are "Greenhorns" and "Zelenáči". The bands were renamed because of communist regime's disapproval of the English names. (Of course, they go under their original names now.) - Mike Rosoft 20:43, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

thanks, "mike." The plavci/rangers thing flittered through my head shortly after entering that all in and then promptly left. Any more thoughts about the curent scene? I have a lot more I could add, but I think the current state of the article is helpful enough. Blidgood 23:27, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bluegrass social/musical impact

I am trying to get things going on the Bluegrass music article to work it up to Featured Article level. One particular thing we are looking for is the social and/or musical impact of bluegrass. For example, what social role did it play in Czechoslovakia during the Communist regime? (underground/protest music?) Has bluegrass impacted Czech popular music? etc. This kind of commentary would also make a good addition to this article. See Talk:Bluegrass music for more. Cmadler 12:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)