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When country music deals with social issues its focus is often on

preserving things, rather than changing things

Bluegrass had a big increase in popularity when a famed 1960s TV show featured a bluegrass theme song who wrote and performed the song

The show was probably, "The Beverly Hillbillies," and the theme song was performed by "Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mt. Boys."

Which of these instruments is not among the big five of bluegrass instruments

Banjo

Who came first in the history of bluegrass

Bluegrass as a style developed during the mid-1940s. Because of war rationing, recording was limited during that time, and it would be most accurate to say that bluegrass was played some time after World War II, but no earlier.

As with any musical genre, no one person can claim to have "invented" it. Rather, bluegrass is an amalgam of old-time music, country, ragtime and jazz. Nevertheless, bluegrass's beginnings can be traced to one band. Today Bill Monroe is referred to as the "founding father" of bluegrass music; the bluegrass style was named for his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939.

What was The Anthology of American Folk Music

A collection of old recordings that inspired the second folk-music boom.

What African-American artists released an important country album in 1962

Ray Charles

In the 1940s Bill Monroe added two musicians to his band to complete the classic bluegrass lineup They were Lester Flatt and

Earl Scruggs

The fiddles role in a bluegrass band is primarily

To provide melodies.

Important rock and roll artists and groups in the 1990s and early 21st century include

Oasis

What is jamming in World War 2

Jamming is a radio transmission deliberately sent out to disrupt the enemy's communications.

When Cecil sharp came to America to collect songs he found songs other countries

True - apex

Which one of these is not a characteristic of folk music

Folk music was invented in the 1930s by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

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