Music of Georgia (U.S. state)
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Template:USstatesmusic 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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Music institutions
The state's official music museum is the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, located in Macon, Georgia.
Folk music
Georgia's folk musical traditions include important contributions to the Piedmont blues, shape note singing and African American music.
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 Template:Ref.
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 Template:Ref.
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 Template:Ref.
See also
References
Notes
- Template:Note New Georgia Encyclopedia: McIntosh County Shouters
- Template:Note New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia Sea Island Singers
- Template:Note New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Sacred Harp