Music of Georgia (U.S. state)
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Folk music
Georgia's folk musical traditions include important contributions to the Piedmont blues, shape note singing and African American music.
[edit] 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 .
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 .
[edit] 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 .
[edit] Popular Music
[edit] 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.
Rock pianist Elton John spends sometime living in Atlanta.
[edit] Country
Country music star Alan Jackson is a native of Newnan, Georgia, just southwest of Atlanta. Also singer Travis Tritt traces his home to Georgia.
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- List of musicians from Georgia
[edit] References
- The Sacred Harp. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on December 2, 2005.
- McIntosh County Shouters. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on December 2, 2005.
- Georgia Sea Island Singers. New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on December 2, 2005.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ New Georgia Encyclopedia: McIntosh County Shouters
- ↑ New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia Sea Island Singers
- ↑ New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Sacred Harp
[edit] 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
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