Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.

Old time fiddle is a genre of American folk music. Old time fiddle tunes may be played on fiddle banjo or other instruments but are nevertheless called fiddle tunes. The genre has European and African origins and traces from the colonization of North America by immigrants from England France Germany Ireland Scotland as well as slaves brought from west Africa in the 1600s and thereafter.

Fiddlin_Bill_Henseley_Mountain_Fiddler_Asheville_North_Carolina_by_Ben_Shahn_1937_(LOC)_(290626613).jpg
derivative
Country music, Bluegrass music, Cajun fiddle
instrument
Banjo, Guitar
stylistic origin
Gospel music, Music of Africa, Music of the United Kingdom, Tin Pan Alley, Appalachian music, Minstrel show

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Old time fiddle"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.