Rodgers, J.

...English folk songs, which had been handed down mainly in the Appalachian Mountains, came into contact with black music in the South and adopted a blues sensibility and the banjo, an instrument of African origin, and developed into modern folk music in the 1920s and 1930s with the spread of records and radio. In the very early days, it was difficult to draw a clear line between folk music and folk music, but after Mississippi-born Jimmie Rodgers recorded a sentimental song with guitar and vocals in 1927, which became popular, it rapidly grew into commercial music performed by professional singers. In the 1930s, group performances using instruments such as guitar, banjo, and violin became more common, and eventually steel guitar and drums were added, and the guitar was replaced by an electric guitar, and the performance forms became more diverse. ...

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…アパラチア山脈地方を中心に伝承されてきたイギリス系民謡が，南部の黒人音楽との接触によりブルースの感覚とかアフリカ起源の楽器バンジョーを取り入れ，1920～30年代におけるレコードやラジオの普及にうながされて現代的な民衆音楽として発展したものである。ごく初期では民謡と明確な境界線は引きがたいが，ミシシッピ州生れのロジャーズJimmie Rodgersが27年にギター弾き語りでセンチメンタルな歌をレコード録音し，これが評判になって以来，プロの歌手による商業音楽として急速に成長した。30年代にはギター，バンジョー，バイオリンなどの楽器によるグループ演奏の形が多くなり，やがてスチール･ギターやドラムも加わり，ギターも電気ギターに変わって，演奏形態は多様化した。…

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